Word: romeo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nonetheless tantalizes: Who would decide what qualities to preserve, and by what standards? Even remedial genetic engineering could pose a distressing problem if it achieved the ability to remove "undesirable" behavior tendencies. Asks Thielicke: "Would one try to eradicate Faust's restlessness, Hamlet's indecision, King Lear's conscience, Romeo and Juliet's conflicts...
...high on days of bannerline sports events and before or after the 17 national holidays. At Fiat, which employs 185,000 people, an average 20,000 workers stay home daily, a number roughly equal to the entire work force of the huge automaker's smaller rival, Alfa Romeo. Assembly-line workers argue that they need time off now and then because the job diminishes their sexual prowess and induces a nervous tic they call the "Charlie Chaplin twitch...
...setting of his story is Parma; had it been Verona the parody of Shakespeare's account of ill-starred lovers in Romeo and Juliet would have been too painfully obvious. Ford's Romeo is called Giovanni and he is played by an actor named Stan Nevin who has half of Leonard Whiting's credentials-a good physique-while lacking a strong or even passable voice for Ford's verse. Giovanni loves his sister Annabella, whose combination of wraithlike charm and physicality Lucinda Winslow succeeds very well in conveying. (Lucy Winslow, Loebgoers will remember, was superb in Dirty Hands. ) The worm...
...What a world of bother to Romeo befalls...
...next commercial break, sure enough, the model appears. Now he is a bank manager scampering down a hallway toward a woman teller who shouts that the bank now has $1 billion in trust. Manager and teller go into a slow-motion dance to the strains of Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet...