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...Edwin Booth, who was born the year Kean died (1833), defined acting as the work of "a sculptor who carves in snow." Without sound film to record his art, an actor's performance ceased to exist on closing night. So Kingsley's Kean is a form of historical evocation, a tribute paid by one actor to another across the gulf of changing theatrical conventions. Other performers-Alfred Drake in a 1961 Broadway musical, Alan Badel in a 1971 London production of Jean-Paul Sartre's play Kean, Anthony Hopkins in a 1979 Masterpiece Theater-have played Kean...
...York City last week, visitors flocked to one of the largest displays of high-technology protection gear ever assembled. The vast and ear-splitting array was on view at the International Security Conference and Exposition. Among devices in the more-than-500-booth exhibit was a $2,000 alarm made by Texas-based Sennet Systems that is equipped with a computer-synthesized voice. When activated, the unit can phone a homeowner anywhere in the U.S. and use its 256-word vocabulary to alert him to the precise nature of a security problem. Linear Corp. of Inglewood, Calif., showed...
...Harvard mentality itself. Charles Sullivan, executive director of the commission, pshaws any claims that his organization inflated the costs, nothing that they recommended few actual changes, and that Harvard obviously went into the project with grand designs in mind. "You don't hire Graham Gund to build a telephone booth," Sullivan adds...
...Harvard got a quality product. Sullivan waxes eloquent about the structure's "post-modernist statement." It uses, he adds, "traditional shapes and forms, putting them together in a much different way." Gund says, "The reason for some of the detail is to make it not look like a toll booth, not make it look utilitarian...
When they do not, they often gravitate to one of the two tackleshops in Last Chance, or perhaps to the dining room of the Chalet Restaurant, and there, seated against the wall in a booth upholstered in red vinyl, they might find Bing Lempke. And whether they are plumbers from Cleveland or industrialists from Los Angeles, they may ask Lempke, who has fished Henry's Fork for a half-century, a litany of questions that run like this...