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...Pandarus, Robert Buckland sacrificed any hint of the corruption or malevolence key to the text to the laughs he could milk by playing as a fawning eunuch. My own reaction to this kind of performance is unprintable but I do think it's an obvious and unrewarding way to alter more accepted interpretations of the character. And this is also true of James Keach's Achilles, a psychopathic narcissistic Hell's Angel type, quickly uninteresting once the gag wears off. A more original job of reinterpretation is Schmidt's casting of Raymond Singer as the venemous fool Thersites, a character...
...Liberals went all out. They picked as their candidate personable 36-year-old Mark Bonham-Carter. For three weeks the battle raged through the narrow lanes and market villages of North Devon-from Sheepwash to Zeal Monachorum, from Milton Damerel to Buckland Brewer, from Wrinkeberry to Woolfardisworthy to Frithelstock. The candidate's energetic mother, 70-year-old Lady Violet
Station Foreman George Buckland took a flying leap into the cab, pulled hard on the air brake. The little train slowed down, came to rest just where it should, at the end of the Seven Sisters platform. Time: 10:21 on the dot. Down the snow-covered track from Palace Gates came panting Driver Playle and his fireman. They had made the 2% miles in 16 minutes. At Seven Sisters a lone passenger got in. The little train, once more under human control, pulled out for the return trip to Palace Gates...
...Francis Trevelyan Buckland's notes on British rats, from his Curiosities of Natural History...
...eliminate from [its] premises any such works of art as it may desire," the artists believed that the cherished no-jury principle had been violated, apparently not by the contract, but by the fact that the contract had been invoked. Sadly The Fair's Advertising Manager Arthur D. Buckland, himself an artist, withdrew his picture from the show, stated that his Executive Committee was no jury, but "a department store is a public institution and . . . cannot take part in political controversies; it cannot open to the young and adolescent of the city anything which, in their youth and inexperience...