Word: wake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Everhart is splendid in his one comic cameo as the drunken Porter. Coleridge thought this scene spurious, but it is genuine Shakespeare and inspired dramaturgy. After murdering Duncan, Macbeth hears the chilling pounding at the gate and has second thoughts: "Wake Duncan with thy knocking! I would thou couldst!" How follow such a climactic moment? Shakespeare's solution was perfect. The only comparable spot I can think of occurs in the finale of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, when the full chorus climaxes thrillingly with words about "standing before God," and is followed by the ludicrously syncopated sounds of a distant...
...Crimson sometimes has a box of news which it labels, "The Real World." Perhaps it is being sardonic. Yet the editors should learn some economics. For one day, to their dismay, they will wake up in "the real world" and then what will they say? Will Kistil...
Agent 007 has left a great many offspring in his wake. Two currently celebrated black superheroes share Bond's same consuming devotion to life-style and interracial violence. Although it might deal their identity a severe blow, both would have to acknowledge Bond as their spiritual father. They are less likely ever to bump into him, however, than into each other, for in their latest appearances they follow more or less the same route to Africa. There the harsh cynicism that was ground into them by the city streets suddenly evaporates. By returning to their roots, their pride...
...millions, perhaps one. perhaps three-nobody could count how many. The orchestra and chorus of Buenos Aires' Colón Opera House were on hand to sing Peronist hymns; kites bearing Perón's image flew overhead, and from the massive crowd came the chant: "Wake up, be happy! Our general is coming home...
This astonishing insight into Richard Nixon's private musings on whether he should resign the presidency over Watergate came not long ago from someone who should know: his younger daughter. Julie Nixon Eisenhower, 24, is the only Nixon who has refused to shun public exposure in the wake of the scandal and has chosen instead to carry her father's case forcefully to the public...