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...Branagh displayed the salesman's knack of charm and fearlessness -- the seductive intelligence, so crucial to performing, managing and directing. He wrote to Olivier for advice on the role of Chebutykin in Three Sisters. He took notes on playing Hamlet from John Gielgud. He determined to play the Dane at a performance attended by the Queen and Prince Philip. Later, preparing his RSC Henry, he won an audience with Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace to discuss the isolation felt by a national leader. Wooed and won by the young actor, Charles became a patron of the Renaissance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: King Ken Comes to Conquer | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

Cardinal fans, for just one day, do not burn Don Denkinger in effigy as they have since 1985. In Toronto, the dartboards with Dane Iorg's image in the center, pierced everyday since the 1985 playoffs when his pinch single shot down the Blue Jays, have...

Author: By Theodore D. Chuang, | Title: Just One Day of Perfection | 4/4/1989 | See Source »

...Dane Holmes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cagers to Clash With Cornell, Columbia | 2/17/1989 | See Source »

Columbia Record: 3-5 Captain: Matt Shannon Scoring: Matt Shannon, 16.4 Dane Holmes, 11.6 Eric Speaker, 11.6 Rebounds: Dane Holmes, 6.8 Assists: Jon Dwyer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ivy League Men's Basketball Leaders | 1/6/1989 | See Source »

...menace of a dropped apostrophe (the parent's "Don't do that" shifting into the more slowly enunciated "Do not do that"), and every believer, the ignominy of having his faith reduced to "faith." Add an exclamation point to "To be or not to be . . . " and the gloomy Dane has all the resolve he needs; add a comma, and the noble sobriety of "God save the Queen" becomes a cry of desperation bordering on double sacrilege...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: In Praise of the Humble Comma | 6/13/1988 | See Source »

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