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...plot is predictable: Valentine travels to work for the Duke in Milan, leaving his friend Proteus, who is in love with Julia (Dawn Li), in Verona. In Milan, Valentine falls in love with the Duke's daughter Silvia (Joanna Weiss), who is engaged to the pompous Sir Thurio (Robert Ashley). Proteus is sent to Milan by his father, and he too becomes enamored of Silvia and manages to thwart Valentine's plan to marry...
...invoked as a cause of the recession -- or as President Bush is fond of calling it, the temporary interruption in the longest economic expansion in history. Likewise for the two-week closing of the Folies-Bergere in Paris, John McEnroe's dropping out of a tennis match in Milan, the pricing of the video release of Ghosts at $100 instead of $19.95, and the New York Giants' refusal to take part in Mayor David Dinkins' Super Bowl victory celebration...
...withering away of the state. Faith in Jesus' Second Coming has persisted through history, even though predictions about its timing have inevitably proved premature. The first Christians thought he would return to earth within their lifetime. As the Goths decimated imperial legions in the 4th century, St. Ambrose of Milan saw the Antichrist among the pagan invaders and proclaimed that the end of the world was nigh. A 12th century Cistercian abbot, Joachim of Flora, was quite precise: the Age of the Spirit, which he saw as the culmination of human history, would begin between A.D. 1200 and 1260. William...
...over the memory of the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia, the assassination of Allende drowned out the groans of Bangladesh, the war in the Sinai Desert made people forget Allende, the Cambodian massacre made people forget Sinai, and so on and so forth until ultimately everyone lets everything be forgotten." --Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting...
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