Word: tempester
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...lose, the director as hero has emerged as the most powerful force in the theater today. At the Olympic Arts Festival in Los Angeles this month, two repertory staples got the full treatment: the Piccolo Teatro di Milano presented a visionary version of Shakespeare's The Tempest in Italian, directed by Giorgio Strehler, while London's Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in its U.S. debut offered the premiere of Andrei Serban's wrongheaded setting of Puccini's Turandot...
...invasion sparked a tempest within the Israel Defense Forces, reflecting both the lack of national consensus about the operation and the controversial decision to bombard West Beirut. Most Israelis supported the initial move to clean the P.L.O. out of southern Lebanon, but opinion shifted when Israeli forces pushed north to encircle Beirut. The war also fell short of achieving its larger goals. Lebanon's Christians failed to win control over the country, as Israel had hoped. After suffering a stinging military defeat, Syria has emerged stronger than ever...
Andrews calls Rowse's Shakespeare the "Caliban" edition, after the half-man, half-brute in The Tempest. Maynard Mack, professor emeritus of English at Yale, tends to agree. Rowse's curious hybrid, Mack says, results in a "language that was never spoken by anyone-not by Shakespeare, not by us. People want the real thing. They don't want deodorized versions of the original. They read Shakespeare precisely because they realize that he belongs to a different world and time, and they want to taste and sense that time." Since last week marked the 420th anniversary...
Even for a town given to loud arguments over potholes and Billy Martin, the latest squabble in New York City seemed frivolous. To some, it became known as the Great Brown-Bagging Controversy. But to others, it looked more like a tempest in a wine cooler. It all began with an innocent New York Times story about 16 restaurants that permitted patrons to bring in their own wine. In Manhattan, where a $5 bottle of wine can cost $15 in a moderately priced restaurant, many customers beat the system by finding a dining spot without a liquor license and then...
...perplexities are home ground for Author Spencer, who for more than three decades has been publishing subtle, meticulous fiction about her native Mississippi (The Voice at the Back Door) and about Americans in Italy (The Light in the Piazza). She seems to have conceived The Salt Line as her Tempest, with Arnie as an eccentric but passionate Prospero. She portrays him in clear Southern light that shines with a "persistent, steady, invisible fallout of blessing." She invests him with a slightly seedy spirituality by surrounding him with motley religious remnants: an 18-ft.-high statue of the Buddha (flotsam from...