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Sharing the themes of family intrigue, feminine trickery, and unstable patriarchy, the stories are certainly sensational. But even the witchy women and swarthy men who populate Alcott's pages cannot detract from her crisp and lively prose...
...Crimson (9-5) looked strong in all facets of the game, showing crisp passing, a strong attack and a great defense. Harvard dictated the flow of the game, controlling the action from the first whistle to the last...
DIED. ORVILLE REDENBACHER, 88, popcorn potentate; in Coronado, California. His persona on TV spots made him an icon of, well, pure corn: the crisp bow tie, the Alfalfa-style hair, the good-natured geekiness. But beneath this hayseed hucksterism, Orville Redenbacher was the Luther Burbank of popcorn. The decades he devoted to the staple food of double features produced a gourmet hybrid that exploded to twice the size and twice the sales of its competitors...
Though A Jubilee appears to be but a few twists and turns away from crisp, the broad range of acting and execution still muddles Chekhov's clarity. Audiences greeted his vaudevilles over a century ago with sheer enthusiasm. The Nora's production falls a bit short...
...three-man, one-woman Publishers Clearing House Prize Patrol moves with military precision. They deplane at the State College, Pennsylvania, airport in crisp blue Prize Patrol blazers, armed with the tools of their trade: Publishers Clearing House balloons, a giant Prize Patrol banner, the famous oversize check, and a dossier on today's winner--one Nellye J. Hall of Clearfield, Pennsylvania. Striding through the parking lot, the team barely acknowledges the gawks and shouts of civilians--"Hey, Prize Patrol, you got a check for me?"--as it boards a rented van and begins the one-hour drive into rural central...