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Shakespeare's real interest is in getting away to the Forest of Arden, where nothing much happens for three acts except a parade of bantering duologues. When it's time for us to go home, the playwright suddenly in the fifth act rounds people up for a quadruple wedding, has someone report that the usurping duke has reformed offstage, and (in a gesture unique for the period) bids the heroine directly dispatch us from the theatre in an epilogue...
...visually a horrible hodgepodge of styles and periods and a gallimaufry of gimmicks. It offered, however, in Donald Harron the only flawlessly spoken and acted Orlando I have ever encountered. When the work turned up here again in 1968, there was not a single tree in the Forest of Arden...
...remaining four acts, however, except for three extremely brief scenes, take place entirely in the Forest of Arden. And what do we look at? Nothing but more bare brown trees. The whole point of the play is blunted...
...even unsuccessful attempts on the lives of American leaders, strike so swiftly and frighteningly that TIME correspondents, like other journalists, need no marching orders from the home office before starting work. On the almost fatal scene with the President Friday morning was TIME'S veteran Sacramento stringer Tom Arden. As soon as Lynette Fromme's gun was wrested away, Arden began gathering eyewitness accounts of the attempt. San Francisco Bureau Chief Joseph Boyce took off for Sacramento and covered Fromme's midafternoon arraignment. Correspondent John Austin remained in San Francisco gathering background material. The Los Angeles bureau...
...candidates for cultural immortality, more or less lovingly revived in four colors from what used to be called the funny papers. In Volume I of Flash Gordon, that Yaleman for all seasons progresses from his crash landing on the planet Mongo with delicious but dumb Dale Arden and brilliant...