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...follow-up to Thursday's nationwide World Harvest Fast, members of the Harvard-Radcliffe South Asian Society and a Yale group led by the Rev. William Sloane Coffin will man booths at gates one and six of the stadium where they will accept donations...
Richard, played by Michael Moriarty, is steeped in evil. To seize the crown of England he murders, or has his agents murder, some half a dozen people, including the two boy princes royal who are smothered in the Tower of London. Over the coffin bearing the dead father-in-law of Lady Anne (Marsha Mason), Richard woos and wins her, despite the fact that he had killed both the father-in-law and her husband. Although he is a lump of deformity with a hunched back and a withered arm, Richard must have the power to attract as well...
...echoed in Carlos' court by the skeleton of St. Ignatius, whose clacking about is easily translated by courtiers attuned to such things. Even when a description of Barnes' ingenuity might make it seem cliched or overdone, they are effective on stage: When Carlos climbs into his mother's coffin after her death, it makes perfect dramatic sense--he has always sought reassurance and commands from her. Even when her corpse answers back, we sense Barnes has made the right move; like nearly all his major gambles, these...
After the funeral in Hyde Park, N.Y., when the crowd had drifted away and workmen were shoveling dirt onto the coffin, Eleanor Roosevelt turned around and walked back alone toward the grave of her husband. A distance from it, she stopped. For a while she stood there, watching from afar, saying nothing. Then she walked away...
...racial practices and policies of the defendants." They seek a court order to have all eligible black patrolmen promoted to sergeant and to force the city to implement an "affirmative action" plan for police recruitment and promotion. A special three-judge panel led by Frank M. Coffin, chief of the First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, will hear the case before September...