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...Company, scholars and theatergoers alike have recognized that Dream is much more than a slapstick farce of lovers tangling in a green glade. Its narrative blends wars of the sexes, of social classes, of generations, even a war between the everyday and the supernatural. The play has become a summit that virtually every world-class director seeks to scale...
NATION: Behind the closed doors, scenes of warmth, candor and realism 16 If nothing else, the summit for a moment brought the collision of the two most powerful forces in history down to the human scale of two men coming in from the mountain cold to talk over differences by the fire. A portfolio of exclusive backstage pictures by TIME Photographer David Hume Kennerly captures the shifting moods of the encounter...
Kings in the 15th century were known to have held their summit meetings in the middle of a bridge. The two sovereigns did their talking through a stout oak lattice set up between them, like the prison grate during visitors' hours. That way, neither could kidnap the other...
...summit meeting is in part a public ceremony of reassurance, an international soothing. To many, the ritual seemed past due. The U.S. and the Soviet Union, the great apes of the nuclear age, had not ascended to the summit since 1979. The superpowers used the intervening years to build their nuclear stockpiles and menace each other, glowering across a distance. The rest of the world skittishly watched...
...ULTIMATELY DECIDED TO TIME LIVE 8 AROUND THE G-8 SUMMIT. ISN'T IT A BIT ODD TO STAGE A ROCK CONCERT AROUND WHAT'S ESSENTIALLY A POLICY MEETING...