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...break in ranks left House Democratic leaders flabbergasted and furious. "It's possible to do something so clever that it's stupid," chided Majority Leader James Wright. "They've made a foolish gesture, subject to misunderstanding in their districts." Indeed, after two days of rebuke by their leaders and angry buttonholing by the powerful education lobby, all but twelve of the dissident Democrats came back to the fold. The continuing resolution, with a $1 billion hike in education and other social programs attached, passed the House...
...height (5 ft. 7½ in. to 5 ft. 9½ in.) and 8 in. in reach, Duran clearly meant to box Hagler, who began timidly. "I was a little tight," the champion said. "I tried not to give him too much respect. But he was very clever." Dipping and dodging, Duran forced him to miss, and counterpunched through the second and third rounds. But the fourth was better for Hagler, and come the fifth he began bringing Duran to his toes with uppercuts inside. Other than lightly noting Duran's familiar low blows, Greek Referee Stanley Christodoulou stayed...
...Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" accomplishes what most House plays set out to do--it entertains without becoming pretentious, giving both the cast and the crowd a good time. Capable actors and clever jokes abound in this production, and only the long line for tickets should keep one from catching a performance...
...reinforced with projected slides of Renaissance perspective drawings of depth and space. This staging may demonstrate how much can be done with so little, but it appears to be of no other value or contribution to the production. At Harvard, Sellars' use of imaginative economy out of necessity was clever and even provocative, but in the real world it appears cheap, lazy and negligent. Besides, we have seen most of it before in Sellars' past shows. The attempt at surreal miasma falls short of what he has done in productions such as King Lear, and too many techniques remain unexplained...
Despite imbalance in the structure, Common Knowledge is a clever representation of campus life. It is sure to appeal to a student audience which is able to laugh at itself and at it friends. But an exlusive theme hovers over the stage a theme that is hard to put down on paper and into the mouths of the characters. Politics is much more than burning down buildings, candlelight marches and a platform of lofty ideals. It is accommodating ideals to reality by communicating them to colleagues and to voters something which the beleaguer Steve is unable...