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Only a man steeped in the theater as Shakespeare was could have conjured up a band of rustics bent on drumming up a play to honor their sovereign's wedding. He cast them as journeymen actors arduously bent on not missing a cue while botching up a scene. With their comic earthiness, they very nearly steal the show. As for lofty gravity and the true melodic rendering of the Shakespearean line, Maggie Smith is one of the sweetest singers this side of Avon...
...profession. Some of these students insist that although they may be going to law school they don't necessarily intend on practicing law. Whether they end up doing so, especially realizing that many people who go into law school with that attitude. emerge with a different, more corporate bent, did not seem to perturb these students. Students interested in going into business were by far the last to decide on careers. Their interests wavered among a number of fields, particularly economics and the sciences before they decided on careers in business...
...looming liquidity crunch; a spreading Middle Eastern arms race, with the U.S. shipping ultramodern weaponry to all takers in a frenetic struggle to retain influence and hold the Soviets at arm's length. The villain is the Shah of Iran, who appears as a double-dealing megalomaniac bent on re-establishing the Persian empire by military conquest, and secretly developing a nuclear arsenal with which to blackmail his Arab neighbors. By story's end, the Western world is in shambles, with America's banks engulfed in a depositors' panic, supermarkets emptied by frantic hoarders, and half...
...line liberals last week seemed bent on just that, accusing Carter of political heresy in his talk about a balanced budget, delayed social spending, work-ethic welfare and pay-as-you-go Social Security. Snorted a former New Dealer: "Carter is the most conservative President since Calvin Coolidge." Fair Dealer Clayton Fritchey, who worked in Harry Truman's Administration and was once Adlai Stevenson's press secretary, wrote that he had warned his liberal compatriots that Carter was the first true businessman to become President, and it would not have surprised him to have heard Carter criticize Gerald...
...Court of St. James's. Senior members of his staff, like Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal, did not fare nearly so well. Originally booked into Claridge's, the posh hostelry favored by Henry Kissinger, they had to revise their plans. Bent on frugality, Carter decreed that they join the rest of the U.S. party in the more modest Hotel Britannia. "He's tight as a tick," said presidential Press Secretary Jody Powell of his boss. "He always has been; he always will...