Word: tempests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...into your bath by sharing the water," reads the ad. "You would be amazed how much gas you save." Appearing in English newspapers, the promotion is part of a fuel-conservation drive by a government-owned gas board-and it has provided gloomy, energy-short Britons with a diverting tempest in a bathtub...
...This is not one of Shakespeare's master plays, and it has no titan of a hero at its epicenter. But it can be a wonderfully engrossing drama, and it does contain grand, stirring and passionate speeches. In this presentation the play is reduced to a tepid tempest in a cracked teacup...
...some reporters ballooned a friendly gesture into a minor tempest? Deakin's boss, Post-Dispatch Washington Bureau Chief Richard Dudman, denied it: "That was uncommon behavior on the part of the President, and it therefore should be reported." But since the original eyewitness reporting had been uncommonly ambivalent, some doubt remained as to just what had happened...
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Op. 31, Nos. 1, 2 ("Tempest") and 3 (Glenn Gould; Columbia; $5.98). Hindemith: Piano Sonatas Nos. 1, 2 and 3 (Glenn Gould; Columbia; $5.98). It is now a decade since the happy hypochondriac of music abandoned the recital stage to devote his life to producing radio documentaries in his native Canada, staying warm (he still wears sweaters and mufflers on the balmiest days) and, fortunately for the rest of the world, continuing to make some of the finest, most original and pleasantly outrageous recordings...
Newport is an island. Theophilus North is Wilder's Tempest, a mock world, a playful world, made safe and orderly by kindly meddling. It would take a Caliban or a young curmudgeon to complain that it is a tempest in a teapot...