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...Lear, not only conceptually but also through lovely nuances of acting and timing and some strangely effective gestures and line-readings--such as his tapping of his crazed skull when he asks poor Tom o' Bedlam (who by now has become his "philosopher"), "What is the cause of thunder?" (Act III, Scene 4), thereby linking quite appropriately the storm on the heath and the storm in his tormented mind...
...made the Niagara the rube's Rubicon. "Indian chiefs"-chiefly from Ireland-plied a brisk trade in white pebbles, which they hawked as "congealed Niagara spray." The cries of "hackmen, photographers and vendors of gimcracks," wrote a horrified Henry James, "at times drown out the thunder of the cataract...
...Thunder in the Compound. The bold est bit of Red butchery took place at Bagia, a tiny hamlet near Quangngai (see map, opposite page), where three South Vietnamese battalions were mousetrapped and mowed down in the worst single battle of the war to date...
...delegates to the Palestine Liberation Organization's National Assembly in Cairo could hardly believe their ears. From President Gamal Abdel Nasser, they had expected the usual blood-and-thunder oratory they have heard from Arab leaders for the past 17 years-a harangue on the need to wipe Israel off the face of the earth...
...eyes that saw, the lips that kissed are gone-Or black as thunder lie and grin at the murdered...