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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Henry Woronicz as Valentine manages to breathe a bit more life into his role, especially after the first act. Though he looks like an emaciated Ted Baxter--complete with stiff face and silver hair--he carries off the more serious side of Valentine adequately. Woronicz provides a decent opposite to Catherine Rust's marvelous Silvia. Echoing Juliet's poignancy, Silvia is the best realized character in Shakespeare's script, and Rust does the part justice and more. Her voice shakes with genuine emotion and her gestures have none of the stiffness that hampers the rest of the cast. She saves...
That one exception is David Michael Berti as Sir Eglamour, the bit part knight who helps Silvia escape in Act V. He leaps on stage wearing silver boots, a white cape, silver leggings and a white tunic with a heraldic device on the front. Shazzam! It's Disco Superman! The house howled at every word. Berti played it to the hilt, flourishing his cape and pouncing about the stage like Batman, delivering his lines with Marvel Comics bravado. As comedy this bogus touch was great, but as Shakespeare it seemed rather strained and out of sorts with the prevailing traditionalism...
Many onlookers seemed to think that with a bit more instruction and sideline help the Crimson could have taken first on Sunday. But, with coach Ben Zivkovic having to divide his time between men's and women's teams in the off season, the women apparently did not receive enough attention. If the athletic department can dig into its pockets for money for a women's coach next year, their generosity may pay off with interest...
...yearlong investigations have been clouded in mystery, covered with top-secret code words and confused by accusations of corruption and foot dragging on the part of some of the investigators. But last week the Texas oil-price scandal broke open a bit when a federal grand jury in Houston handed up criminal indictments charging two small oil companies and five of their executives with a multimillion-dollar rip-off "This is just the tip of the iceberg," said a delighted J.A. ("Tony") Canales, the U.S. Attorney in Houston. "This is not a one-shot deal. It's just...
...happyologists are doing a bit better than that, though their young science is now approximately where navigation was before the invention of the compass. In some ways, as Humorist Russell Baker recently observed, the happyologists resemble sociologists in their dedication to proving what everybody has known all along. Baker groaned at the supposedly big discovery that an unhappy childhood does not necessarily lead to an unhappy adulthood. Who could fail to echo his groan when it is reported, as though it were news, that money, beyond some uncertain minimum, does not buy happiness? A horselaugh might even be the appropriate...