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...called Hidetora, and he speaks in a tongue Will Shakespeare would not have recognized, inhabits a landscape unknown to the Bard, that of 16th century Japan. And Goneril, Regan and Cordelia are here men called Taro, Jiro and Saburo. We are obviously far from the place of this tragic tale's mythic birth and noble retelling, and we are far from the inert reverence of the typical movie adaptation of a classic. Indeed, in Ran (which means "chaos" in Japanese) we venture into a territory where the very word adaptation distorts and diminishes both intention and accomplishment. For what Akira...
...fawn. It won the Pulitzer Prize and passed into many editions. The most valuable remains the version decorated with paintings by N.C. Wyeth (1882-1945), the great illustrator of Robin Hood and Treasure Island. Now, as a Reissued Classic, The Yearling (Scribners; $19.95) is again available. Once more the tragic but redeeming life of the Florida backcountry is illuminated by a giant of the genre...
Last week, in another Christmas season, 245 men and three women of the 101st made noncombat history in a tragic way. They, along with eight civilian crew members, were killed in the worst military air disaster ever. Headed home for the holidays to Fort Campbell, Ky., after six months of multinational peacekeeping duties in the hot winds of the Sinai Peninsula, the troopers died in the bleak brush and deep chill of Newfoundland when their chartered DC-8 jet failed to sustain its takeoff from Gander International Airport. The blue- and-white plane rose less than 1,000 ft., then...
...English racers in settings that vary from battlegrounds to stables. In his equestrian oeuvre, created over a span of some ten years, Gericault even depicted, with an unflinching naturalism, horses being devoured by lions. As Art Historian Philippe Grunchec notes, the painter's devotion to the animals had its tragic side, foreshadowed by some of these works: he died in 1824 at age 32 of complications from a riding accident...
...testifies to Ronis' skill is when Richard (Christopher Moore) and his Queen (Kristin Gasser) part for the last time before they are banished. The characters stand before a single stark lightbulb which, in the midst of their touching departure, arrestingly alerts viewers to the reality of each character's tragic destiny...