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Southern is more than adequate in this immensely difficult title role, capturing Macbeth's humanity without taking the edge off his viciousness; and his genuine British accent caressing the verse makes you sigh with relief and pleasure. Select moments of Southern's performance, such as Macbeth's monologue immediately following his murder of King Duncan, could even be mistaken for professional theater...
QUAD HOUSING IS inferior because people have to be forced to live there. And until people want to live there--that is, select it as their first choice house--inferior it will remain. This is not to say that people are not happy with the Quad or that it cannot be a good place to live. But few would choose to live there without the not-too-invisible hand of the housing lottery...
...news of secret U.S. dealings with Iran began to appear last week, attention inexorably turned to a cluster of suites in the Old Executive Office Building next door to the White House. They house a select band of globe- trotting staffers of the National Security Council, the executive agency that coordinates U.S. defense and foreign-affairs activities. Known for its bravado and love of derring-do, the small group conceived and ran the secret talks with Iran. While the group is part of a crisis-management team within the 46-person NSC staff, its freewheeling style has led Washington insiders...
Last week Soviet citizens saw stirring evidence of the new cultural freedom. A recently released film, Repentance, by Director Tengiz Abuladze, was screened for select audiences in Moscow and Tbilisi. Blending fact and fantasy, the film conveys the message that the Soviet Union has yet to acknowledge the horrors of Stalinism. In another dramatic first, a spring 1987 publication date was announced for Soviet Author Anatoli Rybakov's The Children of the Arbat, a major novel about the Stalin era in which the dictator himself is a leading character...
...book, Boston's Most Eligible Bachelors, lists the The Harvard Gazette's new managing editor, David Sanders, as one of those select few. Sanders, who won acclaim as the public relations flak for Harvard's 350th anniversary celebration, apparently has the qualities Nathan wants. In her book, the local columnist lists each hunk's occupation, approximate income and a brief physical description...