Thus is the cinema reborn, the natural order restored and thus, in the first image of this new cinema, Cordelia (Molly Ringwald) dies, her body stretched on a boulder by the shores of Lake Geneva, as, with his back to her, Lear (Burgess Meredith) beholds the wonders of nature that have made it so.

NEWYORKER: King Lear

Bloomington, a suburb of St George, has built a cul-de-sac around a huge boulder marked with petroglyphs a model that will soon be followed by a developer near Salt Lake City.

ECONOMIST: How to reconcile archaeology with suburban growth