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...William Shakespeare, visiting The Tempest. Michael Demarest...
...intensely controversial issues before the country, the energy package is likely to generate the greatest tempest. Merely on the basis of leaked information, the program was already drawing heavy fire last week from labor leaders, the petroleum, coal and auto industries, and Congress. Small wonder, since the plan will raise fundamental questions about Americans' automobile-centered life-styles and their free-enterprise industrial system based on cheap and plentiful energy. A classic donnybrook is in the making, with the outcome very much in doubt...
...seem like a tempest in a test tube, but it has mightily agitated the scientific community and is now being debated in Congress. The question at issue: Is it dangerous, and possibly sacrilegious, to tamper with the genetic codes that control life? This week's cover story explains how some molecular biologists have become genetic engineers, and it details the controversy that surrounds their experiments. The story aims at providing a thorough understanding of the issues involved in deciding if steps are needed to curb, or stop altogether, the work being done in creating genetic hybrids...
...tempest that closed down the Plains Baptist Church on the eve of last fall's presidential election blew up again last week. Result: the Rev. Bruce Edwards, 30, resigned the pastorate he had held since January...
...plot is not all that original either. All through the seemingly ceaseless running time - nearly 2½ hours, and considerably trimmed from the Russian version - one is put longingly in mind of Forbidden Planet. A lightheaded piece of American scifi, Forbidden Planet (1956) was a genial reworking of The Tempest in which some American astronauts were trapped on a distant planet. There a wizard, a stand-in for Prospero, conjured up an unconquerable force field of "monsters from the id." Hearing this, one of the astronauts inquired without hesitation, "What's the id?" The people who made Solaris...