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...haven't guessed by now, the sport in question is croquet...
Witty and relaxed, Rehnquist gets on well with the other Justices and their staffs. Clerks from other chambers sometimes invite him out to a local pub for beer and burgers, and he invites his former clerks to his house in Arlington to challenge them at croquet. A rumpled dresser, he prefers Wallabees and sweaters to wing tips and pinstripes...
Rockport campers begin their days at the ocean with morning calisthenics, followed by seminars on nutrition, stress control, communications and other topics. In the afternoon they can get a tan, swim or play croquet. The program has been so popular that Katz hopes next year to give employees three days at camp instead...
Even bad Shakespeare contains more nuggets of literary gold than half the premieres of a normal Broadway season Kilty started off well in taking a chainsaw to Shakespeare's text: the lopped off lines are not missed. He set the play in interwar England, the land of tea, croquet, and highly mannered living. But the questionable decisions start coming hard and fast...
...seeds of a brilliant production. Kilty litters the stage with throwaways, sight gags (a very prominent Cherub's phallus is put to some inventive uses), and blatant two-dimensional parodies. Two pedants, Holofernes (Jeremy Geidt) and Sir Nathanid (Harry S. Murphy), converse while playing a hilariously dishonest game of croquet; the clownish Constable Dull (John Bottoms) runs his bike into a hedge; the Queen of France enters in a '37 Cadillac (What is behind the ART's fascination with getting vehicles on stage?). Most attempts to include dancing in Shakespeare look forced and clumsy, even though they were prominent...