Word: returning
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...capital of Phnom-Penh has lived in fear that 40,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops in Cambodia might exploit confusion in the countryside to march on the capital and upset Premier General Lon Nol's government. From his exile in Peking, Sihanouk has promised to return at the head of an army of liberation. For Washington, the dilemma is: what to do if the situation gets so bad that Lon Nol-who up to now has said that he wants no assistance from outside forces -becomes so desperate that he asks for U.S. troops? To refuse might...
...without reason. Statements like "Try to love me a little more and want me a little less," or "It is better to die than to live mechanically" creak like unrepaired antiques. The book's celebrated nude wrestling scene was supposed to dramatize Lawrence's wish for a return to the presexual child-state. In the film's formal, choreographic version, Birkin makes a postfight declaration to Gerald: "We are mentally and spiritually close. Therefore we should be physically close too-it's more complete." The line may be pure Lawrence, but it now "seem little more...
Watching this production of The Flies was, at times, like a return visit to Hugo's Ruy Blas with glorious howls and gloried-in blood. Especially unrestrained and awkward was the scene between Zeus and Aegisthus. Peter Gudjonsson's lumbering mannerisms didn't work well as he tried to express Aegisthus' despair. Similarly, the bodily confrontation between Aegisthus and his assassin Orestes had a uncomfortably melodramatic quality. I found myself among those laughing as Aegisthus' strangled body was dropped down a chute at midstage...
...understood that the majority of Cubans favored a revolution, but one where every faction is included and everybody is permitted to participate in the government. Such a description hardly fits Cuba today. The Cuban dissenters are now dead or exiles in different countries. We will eventually return to Cuba. We do not attempt to ask of the United States any special policies to overthrow Castro. We are only talking to the American people as Cubans. In the United States Castro's repression cannot silence...
This all sounds potentially bizarre and frightening, but Peter Luke and the director Jean Gascon have somehow drained the neurotic fire from Rolfe's dream and made his bitterness seem laughable. When we return to reality at the end of the play (the paper-mache reality of Rolfe's Cheapside flat), the play drops to the maudlin level which characterized its beginning. Like Dorothy awakening from her dream, we are reassured that all has been in fun. One more genius manque has bitten the dust...