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...Love's Labour's Lost anticipates As You Like It, Pericles anticipates The Tempest. Shipwrecks are what pass for plots here as the pseudoclassical hero washes up, island by island, it seems, across the Aegean and the Mediterranean, losing and finally regaining his wife and daughter in the process. Before their reunion, the wife becomes presumably the only matron in a tem ple of vestal virgins, the daughter certainly the only virgin in a brothel - peaks of survival which may outdo even Pericles' own. Shakespeare, the scholars say, wrote only the last three acts, and perhaps ought...
Director Yanne (who was promptly dubbed Chang Yanne by one Paris wit) wasted no time cashing in on the tempest in a China teacup. He coined a helpful publicity slogan: "The film that frightened 800 million Chinese." He also invented a few fake Chinese proverbs, attributing them, naturally, to Confucius. Sample axiom: "Marxist philosophy can very easily be reconciled with foie gras. "More seriously, he argued last week: "If the cinema is going to cause diplomatic crises, then it's time to worry about the mental health of the great powers...
...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...