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While world financial markets reacted nervously to the outbreak of war between Iran and Iraq last week, a new book that promised to be a survival manual for economic disaster was riding atop the bestseller lists. Its title: Crisis Investing: Opportunities and Profits in the Coming Great Depression (Stratford Press; $12.50). The book has already sold approximately 150,000 copies and turned its author, Douglas R. Casey, 34, into the newest high priest of financial gloom and doom...
...STRATFORD, Conn.--Among Shakespeare's plays, Richard III ranks second only to Hamlet in the total number of lines, in the size of the title role, and in its appeal to actors and producers over the centuries. The bloody monster who murdered his way to the throne (a notoriously inaccurate historical portrait) has over the years engaged the talents of several women, boys in their early teens, and even little Ellen Bateman, who began acting the role professionally when she was four...
Opening week at the Stratford Shakespearean Festival is always a dramatic marathon. Trumpeters in Elizabethan garb signal curtaintime and send eight plays sprinting off the mark in five days, beginning a five-month competition that often finds the winners and the losers in close contention. Four of this season's entries...
Every festival profits from a conversation piece. Stratford assuredly has one in Virginia, which is based on the life of Virginia Woolf. One may argue that it is not quite a play, since its structure is that of a labyrinthine interior monologue. This will captivate some playgoers and alienate others. Since about 70% of the material in Virginia comes from the letters and diaries of Woolf, Edna O'Brien is at least as much editor as author of the drama. However, she has a deep affinity for her subject and never violates Woolfs tone of voice. In the title...
...Stratford, Conn...