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Hence the great emphasis in the Israel- P.L.O. peace accord on economic cooperation and regional development. (It takes up nearly a quarter of the text.) The peace plan hinges on the assumption that once the Palestinians are given the opportunity to build their own homeland, they will find enough satisfaction in building to give up fighting. Which explains all the clauses devoted to transportation links and development banks, canal digging and grid linking -- mundane schemes of all kinds between Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian territory that conjure up a vision of nothing less than Benelux- on-the-Jordan...
Less controversial details are fuzzed as well. The film opens with a World Health Organization team investigating the Ebola fever outbreak in Zaire in 1976. "It was not AIDS," says the text on the screen, "but it was a warning of things to come." How? One has to go back to the book to learn that the Ebola fever virus is unrelated to AIDS; it was simply an epidemic that, unlike AIDS, was contained...
...Wild Duck to the haute-bourgeois sexual antics of Tartuffe. In October he returns briefly to the nonprofit R.S.C. with an All's Well That Ends Well starring Sophie Thompson, sister of Oscar winner Emma. His best evidence yet that a classic can prevail on the basis of the text itself is Lysistrata. The ancient Greek comedy sold so well at London's Old Vic that it transferred in late August for an extended commercial...
...Fidget and wait. Conversation in this part of the line turns on why the Queen is opening Buck House (as its staff calls it) at all, even if it's only for two months. Main text and official reason: she needs money to restore the part of Windsor Castle that was ruined in a fire last year. Subtext: p.r. to make up for the behavior of her offspring and their spouses -- Di the bulimic fairy princess, fat Fergie and her toe-sucking Texan "financial adviser," Charles' ambition to become Camilla Parker-Bowles' Tampax. Will a trot through the state rooms...
...member of Parliament to avoid being a pawn in political maneuverings by her father (played with poignancy and ruthlessness by artistic director Newton). She rejects a lord in favor of the family gardener, a sweet-natured man whose heart belongs, hopelessly, to her sister-in-law. The deliberately oblique text may frustrate audiences who want to know exactly what is happening. It gathers mounting power in three scenes: the parliamentarian's downfall, a Hogarthian country wedding and the tentative, unhopeful first night of the bride, the groom and the social wall between them. Whether or not Granville Barker surpasses Shaw...