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...play non-commitally, leaving us to wonder, is she or isn't she his daughter? Who cares? Cliff Robertson has the infinite bad taste to star--if it can be called that--in his own play; one would think he might know the character well enough to lift the cardboard top from the neatly stereotypic executive. Exposing his concern for his son, sent to a military academy "to become a man"--why else?--amid his concern for the effectiveness for his payoffs, Robertson's Baldwin is, in character and enactment, as limited as only a Hollywood actor could imagine corporate...
...Washington sidewalk last March, and he had failed to kill himself two months later, in a North Carolina prison, by taking an overdose of painkillers. In the stockade at Fort Meade, Md., last week, Hinckley jammed the lock to his cell with a piece of cracker-box cardboard. Then he stood on a chair, knotted one sleeve of an Army field jacket around his neck and the other to an iron window bar and, as U.S. marshals shouted at him and struggled vainly to open the door, stepped off the chair. Hinckley, 26, hung for several minutes before a frantic...
Using a tennis racquet, a cardboard box and an overhead projector, Purcell, Gade University Professor Emeritus, demonstrated that light is transmitted in waves rather than particles, and other basic theories of physics...
...good day, Isaac Kattan Kassin deposited as much as $1 million. The money would be delivered almost every morning to three or four different banks in the Miami area. The convicted drug dealer's teams of Hispanic helpers, often aided by bank guards, would lug cardboard boxes and suitcases stuffed with cash to the tellers' windows. That simple method of handling his share of the $12 billion or so in "nar-cobucks" that flood Florida each year used to be the norm-until he and others like him began running afoul of Operation Greenback, the federally coordinated effort...
...overall effect of the characters' interplay fascinates, creating an impression of richness that goes far beyond the superficialities of the average house show. For once the characters aren't so much cardboard as flesh and blood. They seem to be acting out their slow dance for their own benefit, indulging in a graceful minuet apart from the numbing coldness of the killing ground outside. Brought off with impassioned style, by its conclusion Slow Dance has been transformed into a striking danse macabre...