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...Though Brando was chastised by critics for his excesses, there was something brave in his giddy decision to play the role as a mincing fop who warms to liberal consciousness when he contrasts the rigors of sailing under Bligh with the delights of their long, languorous layover in Tahiti. Inevitably the shades of these wild, rich performances (and the fantasy of what might have been had they been combined in a single film) hover over The Bounty, which tips the balance of interest back to Bligh again but somehow manages to dim both characters into incomprehensibility...
During the 1920s, a spendthrift charmer named Tom Mount lived with (and on) Hobson for five years while remaining married to another woman. Hobson endured two abortions, one without anesthesia, before Mount went off to Tahiti to write. A six-year marriage to well-heeled Publisher Thayer Hobson proved more placid, until he stunned her one evening by announcing over the demitasse that he was leaving her for another woman. Looking back on that divorce, what makes her "boil with fury" is the thought that "any woman (most women?) should feel her life exploded into shreds and shards because...
...transmitted through the atmosphere and interconnected oceans, disrupted global weather; some scientists believe that is contributing to the unseasonably hot summer east of the Rocky Mountains. Storm centers moved to new paths in mid-Pacific, causing unusual storms in Hawaii and the worst recorded hurricane in the history of Tahiti. Peruvian officials estimate that overheated ocean waters destroyed about one-half of that nation's normal commercial fishing catch. Winds, waves and storms smashed California beaches last winter, while Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, southern Africa and southern India all suffered from drought. "A year of natural catastrophe...
...work, staged by the Houston Grand Opera as part of a triple commission by the Kennedy Center and La Scala, is a two-hour sequel to Bernstein's 1952 Trouble in Tahiti, a one-act gem stone that gently chided the false contentment of the burgeoning new American suburbs, while poignantly focusing on the failing marriage of an archetypal couple, Sam and Dinah. In its fluid, assured handling of styles, its economy of means and its genuine melodic inspiration, Trouble in Tahiti is a small masterpiece...
Oleg Grabar, the maestro of Fine Arts 13, would like to do a little travelling himself--a week in Florida or Tahiti is his version of the ideal Christmas gift. And the simplest request of all comes form Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53, the Government professor whose average grades are legendary for their coincidence with his middle initial--a nice bottle of cognac is his gift of choice. Try the Harvard Pro, Gov jocks...