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...even as he is interpreting it in an essentially solemn way. We expect the rustics and their "Pyramus and Thisbe" to be a comic staple, and certainly John Bottoms's eponymous, stage-struck Bottom, Jeremy Geidt's paternal, befuddled Quince, Max Wright's scallion-chomping Flute and their cohorts dig up laughs you'd only guessed at, reading the play. But the young lovers, too, keep their scenes from bogging down into indistinguishable, interchangeable laments: Sloan's strong-willed and-armed Helena gets a hapless Demetrius into a half-nelson, and literally dogs his path with a graphic spaniel imitation...
...unbridled search for profit does not appeal to your aesthetic sensibilities, get back to nature. Try forestry, or an archaeological dig, or a canoe trip. You will return to-school less preoccupied with life's petty pursuits...
Neither side gave an inch during Vance's 4½-hour meeting with French Foreign Minister Jean François-Poncet. French officials remained convinced that U.S. insistence on "punishing" the Soviets would only make Moscow dig in deeper. Explained one diplomat: "The European view is that we should retain the leverage to put pressure on the Soviets because we think there's still a chance of getting them to pull out of Afghanistan...
...grow vegetables and other crops. The project has come to a standstill for lack of a few feet of pipe to carry water for irrigation from a nearby stream. Malaria is rampant because camp officials have been unable to persuade the inmates to fill in the water holes they dig in an adjacent stream bed; the puddles are perfect breeding spots for disease-carrying mosquitoes...
With the Senate and SEC investigations concluded but inconclusive, Miller's opponents now demand that the Justice Department dig further. Last week five Senators sent Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti two separate requests for a special prosecutor to investigate possible perjury. Said Senator William Proxmire: "It appears clear that Mr. Miller's testimony before this [Banking] Committee in 1978 was false and misleading." Civiletti has been slow in pushing the inquiry of his fellow Cabinet member and has not questioned several top Textron executives. Referring to the Abscam scandal, Senator Robert Dole quips: "Maybe the Justice Department...