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...most of them--Ben Kingsley, Helena Bonham Carter, Nigel Hawthorne--for his Twelfth Night. A comedy of Eros about loving twins separated in a shipwreck and embroiled in a game of mistaken sexual identity, the piece now begins as an upmarket Blue Lagoon, veers into elaborate farce, then darkens till it seems a lost work of Chekhov's. It's a handsome artifact, though, on its $5 million budget, and gives star treatment to Imogen Stubbs, who is Nunn's wife. "It's a welcome break from the American kind of film realism," she says of Twelfth Night. "When acting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: SUDDENLY SHAKESPEARE | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

...warns, "The big labor bosses. Big money. Big lies. Big liberals." Republicans from R.N.C. chairman Haley Barbour on down have accused the AFL-CIO of trying to buy the elections with its $35 million campaign. As it turns out, Barbour himself has direct knowledge of labor bosses. From 1989 till 1991, Barbour was on retainer to the Marine Engineers Beneficial Association, a dues-paying member of the AFL-CIO. According to union sources, Barbour was paid about $50,000 a year for "professional services," such as lobbying. The leadership of the union at the time also seemed familiar with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HALEY'S UNION BLUES | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

Currently tied with Dartmouth for first place in Ivy League, Harvard will have to wait till the first week in November until it meets any Ivy opponent...

Author: By Rebecca A. Blaeser, | Title: Women's Spikers Swept | 10/23/1996 | See Source »

...telling the people to give you a chance. Please do something. It is very important for the public opinion not only in Egypt but in the whole Arab world." Then came August, September, October. No progress. What can I tell public opinion? "Give him a chance"? Till when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT'S PRESIDENT ON DEALING WITH ISRAEL: I AM VERY, VERY, VERY UPSET | 10/21/1996 | See Source »

Think you can't wait till Nov. 6 for the end of all the whiny negative ads, yawner debates and sloshing special-interest money? If you live in Dallas or Houston, tough luck. Things will only get worse after the election, as a handful of congressional races proceed into a political version of sudden-death overtime. Texas has been forced to stage its own set of December runoffs that could conceivably leave the rest of the nation wondering, for a full five weeks after the election, who will control the House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WILL TEXAS PULL A HOLDUP? | 10/21/1996 | See Source »

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