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...BIBLIOGRAPHY of critical works on Hamlet, they say, is twice as thick as the Warsaw telephone directory; and, on the average, a new study of the play has appeared every 12 days for the past 90 years. What's worse, these figures, instead of intimidating most directors, provoke them to wild excesses of interpretation. After all, they figure, Hamlet can take...
...appeared in the London Sunday Times, the strange protest campaign began. Several British newspapers and TV and radio stations received typed statements that bore the heading OPERATION DARK HARVEST.The message demanded that the government solve the problem of the island's contamination by burying the bacilli beneath thick layers of reinforced concrete, sand and other materials, or by removing the soil completely and burying it elsewhere, or by soaking the island in potassium permanganate solution, or by raising "the temperature of the island to about 1,000° C for two minutes...
...upbeat formula can lift circulation to 500,000 and put the magazine into the black. She plans articles about travel, exploration, anthropology and archaeology, some of them written in the first person. "I think people enjoy reading about people." The magazine will be redesigned, starting with the cover, whose thick green border confused readers and newsstand dealers; it was hard to tell issues apart. Rense anticipates "close, intense involvement with Geo for the first six months," returning from Manhattan to her home in Beverly Hills most weekends. She will continue to edit Architectural Digest...
...government could afford to feed students the lunch on the cover [Oct. 12]. Fresh lettuce and tomato on a thick hamburger on a toasted bun on a shiny china plate on a tray devoid of graffiti simply do not exist in a school cafeteria...
...progress has also brought new problems. Nowhere is this more apparent than in greater Athens, where almost one-third of Greece's 9.6 million citizens now live. Often, the ancient city is cloaked in a suffocating smog so thick that residents cannot see the Acropolis. Says Yannis Manos, who left his native village on a small Dodecanese island and today drives a battered taxi in Athens: "If I had known then what this would cost, I never would have left Patmos...