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...bearded man wearing camouflage army gear and a beret and with a knife strapped to his leg walked into the studios of CJRP, a Quebec City radio station, one morning last week. He handed a cassette tape to a reporter and told her, "To you, my name is Mr. D." A short time later, a man fitting Mr. D.'s description burst into the Quebec provincial legislature, called the National Assembly, firing a submachine gun as he went and shouting, "Où sont les députés? Jevais les tuer!" (Where are the legislators? I am going...
Police later arrested Corporal Denis Lortie, 25, a supply technician attached to a Canadian Armed Forces installation near Ottawa. Canadian authorities have not speculated on Lortie's motives. But the tape left by the man at CJRP threatened to "destroy" the provincial government, which has espoused separation from the rest of Canada. The recording railed against the ruling Parti Québécois 's pro-French language policies, declaring: "I [have] waited for just the right moment. It's at hand now. The government will be destroyed...
...noted for his exacting fidelity to even the most complex script, as he worked to transmit the inner truth of a play rather than impose on it any other vision. He crusaded particularly for Beckett, and his productions of Waiting for Godot, Endgame and Krapp's Last Tape, among others, profoundly influenced the course of modern theater. Also closely associated with Albee, Schneider won a 1962 Tony Award for directing Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Throughout his career, he resisted any single approach to theater, alternating between commercial and workshop projects, Broadway and regional stages, avant-garde...
...begun to produce a Chinese version of the affluent society. At the Xiang Jiang state farm near Mao's birthplace in Hunan province, which was renowned a dozen years ago for its spartan housing and inadequate sanitation, TV antennas now protrude from rooftops and pop music blares from tape recorders. Local Party Secretary Qiu Huaisheng proudly points out that "of the 200 households, 126 have bought TV sets and 112 own cassette recorders." Sometimes, however, the peasants' purchases, as well as their entrepreneurial skills, are both illicit and posilively profligate. A group of peasants in Fujian province pooled its resources...
...reread what has been said to him, to make corrections in his own answer, or to throw it away and start again. And finally, it provides him a copy of what was agreed or not agreed a month earlier. All the telephoner has is his illegally recorded tape, most of which consists of "you know" and "uh" and "right?" (remember Nixon in conference...