Word: tempests
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...male-dominated G.O.P. political circles, Matalin has suffered far more for the relationship than Carville has. Last year several top Republicans pressed Bush to dismiss her lest pillow talk undo his re-election. But the President stuck by Matalin and gave her a big hug after last week's tempest passed...
...Lodge's ability to juxtapose different worlds and to effect a composition out of what might be expected to be contradiction makes his work original. Bernard recalls some lines from The Tempest: Sir, he may live./I saw him beat the surges under him,/And ride upon their backs. "Is that, I wonder, the first description of surfing in English Literature?" Bernard muses...
...think it's more subdued than in the others. In some ways I rather regret not exploiting it more. Basically I saw it generically as a tragicomedy, in the sense in which one applies that term to Shakespeare's later plays, among which I was thinking particularly of The tempest. I saw it as a sort of island story, like The Tempest...
Regarding the tempest in a toaster oven...
...Crimson recently spoke with Peter Greenaway, director of The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover and the recently released Prospero's Books, a film adaptation of The Tempest. The following are excerpts from that conversation...