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...SOMETHING REFRESHING about the idea of plunging a stake into the eye of the Cyclops. And when one hears this gory little episode read aloud, it only gets better, as was made duly clear by the epic's latest translator, Robert Fagles, and theater veterans Jason Robards and Kathryn Walker in "An Evening's 'Odyssey.'" The performance of this modern translation at once reinvigorated an already bracing classic and tapped into the ageless appeal of story-telling, of re-inventing the tale on the spot...
Classical topics have enjoyed somewhat of an upswing in popularity and attention recently in theater and print alike. Fagles's translation of The Odyssey has garnered not only widespread critical praise but also plaudits for its accessibility to the average reader. With Walker's production of another ancient classic, the play The Bacchae, to go up at the Agassiz this fall, a dramatic reading of the epic would seem natural enough...
...admit that Star Wars and I go way back. When I was four years old I had every single action figure, every ship, every model, every Burger King glass, and an authentic Darth Vader Halloween costume (in fact, the one glaring gap in my collection was the Imperial Walker from the Hoth segment of Empire Strikes Back--but I seem to have recovered). My relatives put themselves through unspeakable torments trying to locate the newest Star Wars toy or trinket, as they are wont to remind me, and my oldest friends still harangue me for having stubbornly insisted that...
Zola's goal came in the 20th minute, a powerful right-footed shot which just clipped the foot of England's Sol Campbell on the way past fellow Tottenham teammate Ian Walker, playing in goal only because of a matchday injury to David Seaman...
...year-old Supreme Court judge was shot at point blank outside his apartment in downtown Madrid. "It looks like ETA is opening up all its channels for killing," said Interior Minister Belloch. Politicians have been warning against a new round of violence for months, TIME's Jane Walker reports. "Spain's major democratic parties had a united front on how to fight terrorism. It broke when the Basque Nationalists began pushing for talks with ETA." The separatists are holding two kidnap victims as bargaining chips to pressure authorities into allowing sentenced Basques to serve their terms near their home towns...