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...those convicted of eleven specific kinds of murder. The California law, which will take effect Jan. 1, is designed to get around the Supreme Court's objections to the arbitrary and capricious use of capital punishment. If the bill passes constitutional muster, California will again use the gas chamber. Reagan, however, was not entirely comfortable about that method of execution or indeed any of the methods in use around the world, ranging from the noose to the firing squad and the guillotine, which was originally adopted in France in 1792 upon the urging of a compassionate French doctor, Joseph...
ANIMAL FARM, adapted, through improvisation, mime, and "Chamber Theater style narration," from George Orwell. There was a cartoon version of Animal Farm made years ago by some Trotskyist or Cold Warrior who tacked on an ending in which the animals throw the pigs out and live happily ever after. This is fine for the animals, but piss-poor for the movie. This version, however, is merely "a devastating attack on the pig-headed rulers of an imaginary totalitatian state." Pig-headed, get it? Opens tonight at 8 at the Boston Repertory Theater, Marlboro and Berkeley Streets in Boston, in repertory...
Though Prime Minister Olof Palme seems determined to cling to office, he may have some problems. Until a new constitution goes into effect in 1975, the only way to break a tied vote in the one-chamber legislature is by lottery. According to an unusual provision of Sweden's current constitution, tie votes in the Riksdag are resolved by placing one yes and one no ballot in an urn; under the watchful eye of two legislators representing both sides, a third Riksdag member draws one of the tickets from the urn to decide the fate of the bill...
...resign. Such an effort would also make it appear that he was short-circuiting the legal system and prejudging Agnew as guilty. Agnew could continue to carry out his constitutional duty of presiding over the Senate, but he rarely does so now and probably would not appear in the chamber under such a cloud. At the same time, impeachment would be improbable once trial had begun, and the situation would end only when a court had rendered its verdict on the criminal charges...
...exemplary cast (notably Roger Soyer as the don, Sir Geraint Evans as Leporello, and Heather Harper as Elvira) and Conductor Daniel Barenboim. Only seven years after rearranging a notable piano career to include the baton, Barenboim, 30, made an impressive operatic debut at Edinburgh, bringing forth from the English Chamber Orchestra a powerfully humane and often witty reading ideally geared to Ustinov's provocative ideas about the composer...