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...Lion in Winter is pure theater, verbally lush and crammed with dramatic peaks. Every scene builds to a stunning climax, as betrayals and counter-betrayals blaze into a crescendo of frustration and defeat. The play's stylized characterizations and heightened language looked like so much posturing and anachronism on the screen; but back on the stage, in the Leverett Old Library Theatre, they form the underpinnings of a first-rate production...
...heating oil to gasoline much later than usual. Construction of nuclear power plants is far behind schedule; only one was licensed last year. That could lead to brownouts and blackouts in five years or so if utilities cannot find greater supplies of gas, oil and coal. Even so, lights blaze wastefully in New York and many other cities...
Larry Schember used a quick start to blaze to a 4.7 second victory in the 40-yd. dash. Schember was so keen to fly off the starting block, a camera click caused him to false start once before winning his race...
...dependent on Reserve for their livelihood continue to have jobs." More months may pass before the Reserve case-and Silver Bay's fate-are finally decided. Whatever happens, vows Ruth Ericson, wife of a Reserve lab analyst, "if we go down, we're going down in a blaze of glory. On July 7 we're going to put a barricade across the road into town, and then we're going to throw one hell of a party...
Indeed, Tutankhamun lived during a blaze of pharaonic wealth and power. Besides their use of gold, his artists worked in silver, alabaster, obsidian, lapis lazuli, wood, glass and gems, handling each material as masterfully as if it were clay. They had turned from much of the rigid formality that marks artworks of earlier periods to more natural poses and more intimate scenes...