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...last season's LEAVE IT TO BEAVER awards (if you don't remember them it's just as well) it's time once again to hand out more soon-to-be-coveted kudos for some of the great unsung college baseball events of the Harvard season. So without further ado, could we have the proverbial envelope please...
...Much Ado About Nothing. The highly-acclaimed Joseph Papp adaptation of Shakespeare, set in World War I America. Ch. 2, 7 p.m. 3 hours...
MOST NOURISHING DRAMA: Laurence Olivier and Britain's National Theater in Long Day's Journey into Night (ABC) and Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival production of Much Ado About Nothing...
...turned out to be much ado about very little. Rather than declare financial war against the West, the Arabs are trying to solve a vexing problem: how to use those petrodollars, pet-rofrancs, petromarks, petropounds and petroyen to expand their own undernourished economies. Because most Arab nations are not sufficiently industrialized to present lucrative investment prospects, the wealthy nations have parked their money in Western banks. That is a situation they will not move quickly to alter, since a rapid withdrawal of the funds could provoke monetary aberrations that would lower the value of their holdings. As one Beirut economist...
...snagging of a staff in a codpiece, the goosing of a tart with a loaf of bread, and the kneeing of an officer in the groin by a brothel-keeper. Ronald Frazier is amusing enough as Elbow, the malapropistic constable (a type better managed in the Dogberry of Much Ado About Nothing); and so is the clowning tapster Pompey of Rex Everhart, who has been doing such roles for the AST off and on since its first season. Gene Nye turns the disreputable Froth into a stuttering nincompoop that is vastly overdone; measure. Mr. Nye, please...