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...Sellars has brutally mashed Much Ado About Nothing's script to fit the limits of his acting company and his own self-indulgent desire to buck conventionality. His innovations in staging are often clever and amusing, like his use of several mannequins to fill various roles for which he lacked actors; but the merging of more important roles, the cutting and chopping of important scenes, and the self-consciousness of each departure from Shakespeare unnerve the audience and often make the play's plot incomprehensible. Sellars might just as well have bounded on stage, done a headstand, cried "look...
...where domestic oil output has been declining (down about 700,000 bbl. a day since 1972), a freeze on imports would cause more hardship. Japan, which is totally dependent on imported oil, took the same view; Prime Minister Masayoshi Ohira reportedly dismissed the European plan as "very clever." Canada, where domestic oil production is also leveling off, joined the U.S. and Japan in urging that the summiteers set specific, country-by-country import quotas, adjusted to reflect each nation's differing circumstances...
...character was anything but sticky sweet. In Stella Marts, for instance, she played a double role: a crippled heiress and a love-obsessed slavey who commits murder so that the heiress and her lover (whom the slavey also loves) can find happiness. In the Dickensian Sparrows, she played a clever and persistent teen-ager who frees the inmates of an orphanage from sadistic bondage. It was a strong role for a forceful woman. Even in pictures like Pollyanna or Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Pickford showed wit, endearing mischievousness and sheer spunk...
...real McCoy, but an actor gent from New York. Goes by the name of Sacchi, Robert Sacchi, and he's making a flick in L.A. called The Man with Bogart 's Face. It's all about this guy who takes the name of Sam Marlowe (clever, huh?), gets his puss fixed to look like the one and only, and becomes a private dick in Hollywood. Hires a secretary who could stop traffic on Sunset but has the brains of a flea, tangles with a midget, finds a stiff by the name of Horst Borsht, and runs into...
...replaced the locks with new ones so that nothing would seem to have been disturbed. One theory was that he had intended to put the cement blocks in the crate too, so that it would weigh as much as when first carried in to the storage area. The clever thief's plan had been to walk out of the bank, then have the box delivered to him. Bank officials might not have known anything was missing until patrons returned to open their boxes. Said Police Chief Joe Terlizzese: "It was a fantastically ingenious...