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...time, however, Mike is east of Hollywood and way off-off-off Broadway at a barn in Scottsdale, Ariz. His Miss America is a white Arab mare listed unromantically on the program as "Lot No. 1 -Fantazja." Other ingénues should be so lucky. After 17 minutes of brisk bidding, Fantazja sells for a record $450,000. By show's end 31 Nichols-bred Arabians have been knocked down for a total of $2,316,000. Horses are a beguiling pastime for Nichols, who has loved them since childhood and bred Arabians since he could afford to. "This...
Despite the guards, the Olympic esprit, arising from the ideal of bringing the youth of the world together, still lives in the Olympic Village. A free game room filled with the latest in pinball machines and electronic games does a brisk business. TILT is an international language. A disco with ear-numbing banks of speakers and flashing lights is in full shriek at night. In the main courtyard of the Olympic Village, the flags of the I.O.C., the Lake Placid symbol and the 37 countries represented at the Winter Games, snap in the wind against a winter sky. Below, athletes...
...this after high school." One of the distinctly appealing aspects of Table Settings is its benign ami ability. Even when Lapine's characters verge on cartoons, he presents them as en dearingly human in their follies, desires and genetically nutty ways. His direction of his own play is brisk, and his cast is close to flawless. A special huzzah should be raised to the two kids, who manage the rare stage feat of being obnoxious and adorable at the same time. - T.E. Kalem
Fury over finances and helplessness in the face of roving brigands compelled peasant and townsman alike to form "leagues" to advance their common purposes. Armorers did a brisk business in swords, helmets and arquebuses, forerunners of the musket. In February 1579 the drapers of Romans paraded with weapons and elected a burly colleague, Paumier, as their festival chief. He also became the factional leader of angry craftsmen, tradesmen and plowmen. Soon there were two governments in Romans: Paumier and his followers had seized control of the city gates, a vital link to leaguers in the countryside. By the latter part...
...magnet of the evening is Maggie Smith as Carson's wife Ruth. She seems to have slithered out of a Noel Coward comedy. Sophisticated, weary of it all, and restless, Ruth is given to brisk interior monologues, like "Help!" or "Watch it Tallulah!" Stoppard has given her a tasty collation of epigrams, and her delivery is succulent. Of her one-night London stand with Wagner, she notes that "hotel rooms constitute a separate moral universe." She develops a sensual fantasy crush on Milne and is heart-wrenchingly crushed when he is killed. Seductively comic, and amusingly seductive, Smith must...