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...full of himself, full of more than the thespian's usually large share of bravado, but he is also full of Shakespeare and good humor. One of the highlights of the show comes when McKellen challenges the audience to find a single happy marriage in Shakespeare's canon--and shoots down every suggestion--from Othello and Desdemona to Brutus and Portia--with a few witty retorts. "Romeo and Juliet?" McKellen muses, "Short and sweet...
Last year BLM Range Conservationist Walter Jakubowski persuaded authorities at the Colorado State Prison complex in Canon City to let convicts break the horses. Most of the inmates are city bred, and none have had equine experience. In one year the convict-cowboy program has tamed more than 400 mustangs. Another 350 horses are corralled at the prison to be trained at the rate of about ten a day. Most are only halter broken, rather than readied for saddlework...
...value. In this, the centenary year of their debut in Beeton's Christmas Annual of 1887, Holmes and Watson will receive some 5,000 letters at 221B Baker Street, even though the place now houses the Abbey National Building Society. Groups on four continents regularly meet to study the canon (56 stories and four novels), as well as some 12,000 books about the sacred writings. The familiar lean figure with Inverness cape, deerstalker and underslung pipe regularly appears in the headlines. Speculating two weeks ago on who laid the mines plaguing U.S. convoys in the Persian Gulf, David Mellor...
Regarding the controversy over whether the press and voters should concern themselves with the alleged sexual or other moral misconduct of leaders like Senator Gary Hart ((PRESS, June 8)), I offer this quote from John Adams' Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law (1765): "Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have . . . an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean of the characters and conduct of their rulers...
...USED to be that one had two options as a literary scholar: write the life history of an author, or sum up the meaning of her book. In either case, one's criticisms were considered marginal footnotes to the original works of "the canon...