Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another trap in Stoppard's play is the confining of rich, mock-Elizabethan dialogue to a spare, absurdist setting--as critics have pointed out, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern draws heavily from Samuel Beckett's style. But director Kaplan perhaps tips the scales too heavily toward the absurd tradition. The stark stage, the sparse furniture are all there, and rightly so. But the Shakespearean tradition is just as important: Stoppard includes sizable chunks from Hamlet, and his own words show a penchant for language tricks...
...then and feeling solvent. He had been rich two or three times since he took a bachelor's degree in history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1954, going on to speculate prosperously in land. He speaks wistfully of a period, long ago, when he ran through his money in the sporting houses of Havana. Laying a finger alongside a nose whose veins suggest some past abuse, he allows: "One time, I drank myself broke...
Nowhere have falling prices struck harder than in the oil-rich region around Houston. The city's February unemployment rate reached 10.5%, a shade above the national average for the month and up from only 4.8% just a year ago. Houston office vacancies stand at 20.3%. In Port Arthur, a Gulf coast community that bristles with refineries, February joblessness...
Some Colorado residents have similar tales to tell. Developers flocked to build skyscrapers in Denver as the U.S. turned to the resource-rich Rocky Mountain region for relief from OPEC price gouging. Now much of that steel-and-glass space stands empty. The downtown vacancy rate, less than 1% when the energy boom peaked in 1981, has risen to 13%; the city wide rate is 20%. One landlord had offered real estate agents free trips to Paris and even luxury BMW autos as bonuses for helping to fill a new building. Other developers are giving up. Canterra Energy of Canada...
...another series on French cookery. She could, for example, have concentrated on la nouvelle cuisine. In fact, Chef Child is not a lover of nouvelle cuisine and claims, not entirely rhetorically, that it has been the ruination of many great French restaurants. Moreover, in deciding to mine the rich resources of her own country, Julia is joining a nationwide movement toward a redefined American style of cooking that has won recognition in restaurants from Alice Waters' Chez Panisse in Berkeley to Manhattan's Four Seasons. Julia maintains that American cooking has always been nouvelle in its best sense...