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With Shultz now in charge of the Administration's hottest foreign problem, speculation arose over what he would do with that power and whether he could hold it. Did it mean a defter and softer touch in Central America? If so, would the White House and Pentagon hard-liners keep hands off for long? Shultz has never publicly differed from the Reagan attitude toward the region, so all of the fuss last week may signal no substantial policy change. "The policy is taking a hell of a beating in terms of credibility," observes a senior State Department official...
...rare verbal statements. Beate and Lucio do not converse; nor do they touch. They communicate by literary reference. Lucio confesses his love by passing her a copy of Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra, drawing her attention to a poem that ends on an oddly depressing note: "But every pleasure wants eternity-wants deep, deep eternity." She reciprocates by returning the book with the poem underlined in red. Lucio interprets these underlinings as a sign of her willingness to lie under him in ecstatic consummation of their love...
Rosenfield said that the museum had already been in touch with the Mid-Cambridge Association, a local community group...
...role of Indiana Jones in another Lucas-inspired film, Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark. Star Wars gave him visibility, but Raiders made him a box-office draw. "People want fairy tales in their lives, and I'm lucky enough to provide them," Ford says with a touch of cynicism. "There is no difference between doing this kind of film and playing King Lear. The actor's job is exactly the same: dress up and pretend." Nonetheless, he wanted Han to do something different in Jedi, and that was to die. "I thought it would give the myth some...
...this prankish revisionism, good-natured but a touch self-smitten, is the work of Peter Sellars, 25, the director who has worked similar changes on other classics: Handel's Orlando set at the Kennedy Space Center, King Lear featuring a Lincoln Continental. (Subject for a future master's thesis: Automotive Metaphor and the Sound of Cultural Collision in the Early Work of Peter Sellars.) Sellars clearly seeks not so much to rejustify all these stage pieces as to re-examine them, even reinvent them, for a contemporary audience. What is up-to-date in The Mikado is timeless...