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Predictably good was the curtain raiser, England's Royal Shakespeare Compa ny in a production of Much Ado About Nothing, which ran through last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Bold, Visual, Spectacular | 6/25/1984 | See Source »

...witty lovers Benedick and Beatrice are delightfully played by Derek Jacobi (Claudius in PBS's 1977 series I, Claudius) and Sinead Cusack. Directed by Terry Hands, this Much Ado is helium powered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Bold, Visual, Spectacular | 6/25/1984 | See Source »

...former President Jimmy Carter's briefing papers for his October 1980 debate with then Candidate Ronald Reagan wind up in the Reagan camp? The mystery titillated Washington last summer. "Debategate" entered the lexicon, and the inevitable congressional investigation began. The President dismissed the flap as "much ado about nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Crime | 3/5/1984 | See Source »

Healy described the potential danger of high trihalomethane counts as "much ado about nothing--or almost nothing...

Author: By John N. Tate, | Title: City Tests Say Water Meets Standards | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

...regain its full credibility only by ensuring that investigations go forward. If there is housecleaning to be done, the President has already demonstrated-most recently in the EPA scandal-that he can do it, however reluctantly and unapologetically. He stands by his characterization of the ruckus as "much ado about nothing. " But Reagan has already said what Richard Nixon could never quite bring himself to say about Watergate. Promised Reagan: "If, when the investigation is over and the truth is known, it is necessary to correct that statement, I'll correct it." Even if Reagan is vindicated, however...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: There You Go Again | 7/25/1983 | See Source »

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