Richard Corliss
February 1, 1988 12:00 AM EST
KING LEAR
At the 1985 Cannes Film Festival, Minimogul Menahem Golan sat down with Jean- Luc Godard and, on a table napkin, jotted down a movie contract. Cinema’s old enfant terrible (Breathless, Weekend, Hail Mary) would write and direct a modern King Lear. Norman Mailer would play the mad monarch, Woody Allen the fool.
Guess what? Things didn’t work out quite that way.
TIME
March 14, 1960 12:00 AM GMT-5
Who spreads the misconceptions about the U.S. in Latin America was never better demonstrated than in Cuba last week.
Before a group of Havana University students—and a countrywide TV audience—Major Ernesto (“Che”) Guevara, the scraggly-bearded president of Cuba’s National Bank and the top Red in the Castro government, explained that Cuba’s 3,000,000-ton sugar quota on the high-priced U.S. market (5¢ per lb. v. 3¢ on the world market) was not a good deal at all.
To those who suffer from gephyrophobia — fear of bridges — the alumi num-painted, 2,235-ft. span between Kanauga, Ohio, and Point Pleasant, W. Va., was a constant horror. Christened in 1928 as the “Gateway to the South,” it swayed sickeningly to every vagrant breeze — so much so that Point Pleas ant Mayor D. B. Morgan banned its use during parades. Last week, under the bumper-to-bumper weight of cars, gravel trucks, and semitrailers, the “Silver Bridge” collapsed, carrying perhaps as many as 100 people to their deaths in the murky, near-freezing Ohio River waters 80 ft.
The younger Madueke is being investigated due to his alleged connection to the $115 million bribery scandal involving officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). “We have launched a manhunt for Ugonna, who the suspects said was the one who drew up a list of individuals, who should be given the N23bn ($115m),” a source told Punch. “We don’t know exactly where he is but we will get him.
The social networking giant says it's cracking down on scam artists who dupe consumers into clicking on ads promising things like flower deliveries but actually sending them to web pages peddling diet pills, dubious muscle-building promises or even pornography. Facebook says the practice is known as 'cloaking." A fraudster will make an ad or post look legitimate so that it not only fools people but also Facebook's internal ad delivery system.