Word: arthur
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ladder on the other--instead of 16 different sets, a cast pared-down from 28 to just eight, one pianist instead of an orchestra, and less than extravagant costumes. These measures give focus to Camelot's story, nicely highlighting its comic verve and the lusty love triangle between King Arthur, his Queen, Guinevere (usually referred to as Jenny) and Sir Lancelot. The cast conveys such high spirits and passions that their performances overcome any bothersome sense of the play's datedness...
...production opens as Arthur (Jeffrey Korn) prepares for battle against Lancelot, his once-trusted knight who has stolen away with Jenny. Distraught and confused about the events leading up to this moment, he implores his invisible mentor: "Merlin, if I must fall in battle, do not let me die bewildered." The entire play is essentially a flashback, beginning just before his first encounter with Lady Guinevere (Laurie Meyers). Korn suddenly transforms into a frisky young king, pleasantly nervous on the eve of his wedding. No matter which incarnation of Arthur he is creating, shy playful fellow or idealistic ruler...
...Arthur Clifton Goodwin: oils and pastels, Vose Galleries, 238 Newbury...
...latest youthful leading man, the pint-sized Sherlock Holmes, is so precocious as to be almost wholly unchildlike. Columbus says he scoured Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's books for hints at the genesis of the "cold, emotionless bachelor" that Holmes was to become. At one point, Columbus reports, one of young Holmes' instructors tells the youngster never to "let your emotions distract...
...divest, you put yourself in a position where you have no leverage to do anything," said I. Reid Weedon, senior vice president of the Cambridge consulting firm Arthur D. Little. The firm rates companies on how well they are adhering to the principles, a set of voluntary measures to desegregate workplaces and provide greater advancement opportunities for South Africa's Black majority...