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...play flashes into lucidity every now and then when Japes Emerson's Benedick and Anne Beresford Clarke's Beatrice parry each other's verbal thrusts. Clarke assumes the stage with an assurance other performers whose roles had been mangled could not afford. Her voice is not large or overpowering; instead of ringing out, it pierces and slices--but that's an effective sound for this razor-tongued heroine. Emerson's Benedick is youthful and athletic, but not terribly well-defined; Shakespeare suggests he ought to be something of an eccentric...
When benevolent Tycoon John Beresford Tipton passed out checks in the 1950s television series The Millionaire, the recipients wound up with a cool $1 million tax free. No such luck awaits the million-dollar winners of state lotteries. Though the lottery commissions hardly emphasize the fact, they arbitrarily dole out their millions in installments of $50,000 a year over 20 years, all of it taxable. A winner with no other earnings to boost his tax rate further will end up with, at best, about $30,000 a year. In short, what you see emblazoned on the ticket...
...Named "for good luck" after John Beresford Tipton, the character in the 1950s' The Millionaire TV series who gave away $1 million a week...
...might have expected the unusual: an honored member of the East German Communist Party, he is deputy to the unorthodox Walter Felsenstein at the famed Komische Oper in East Berlin. Yet nobody seemed prepared for what appeared when Conductor Erich Leinsdorf lowered his baton for the overture. Tenor Hugh Beresford wandered over a barren wooden platform; instead of a balletic orgy, there was a huge human brain populated with frightening, dim figures miming psychiatric problems ranging from infantilism to sadomasochism. Venus arrived looking like a Reeperbahn stripper...
...itself was damned in another fashion. Cedric Richards resigned in protest from the parish council, hinting that the reason the company was allowed to "ride roughshod" was because it had bought off some of his fellow citizens. Beresford Worswick, a crusty fugitive from London, summoned the Royal Fine Art Commission to inspect the scene. The commission expressed regret that "a film company should have made alterations to an exceptional English village, instead of adopting the more acceptable practice of building a film set to represent an English village...