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SEVERAL PROBLEMS MAR Bradford's approach to the text. Why, for instance, has he not cut the distracting subplots often excluded in contemporary productions--such as the hackneyed drinking scenes between Caliban and minor characters Trinculo and Stephano, or the awkwardly staged scene in which the goddesses Iris, Ceres and Juno appear? These types of passages have little charm and distract the audience from the more important issues of the play. Bradford could have populated his huge stage in other ways...

Author: By Ariz Posner, | Title: Not the Sum of Its Parts | 5/2/1986 | See Source »

...lighten our load, The Crimson will publish only on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays through reading period and exams. We may pass our courses and you'll have less to distract you in the mornings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: To Our Readers | 4/30/1986 | See Source »

...lighten our load, The Crimson will publish only on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays through reading period and exams. We may pass our courses and you'll have less to distract you in the mornings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: To Our Readers | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

Ultimately, of course, each merger or takeover or leveraged buyout must be judged on its own merits. There are good mergers, and there are bad ones. The true danger of the current rash of mergers is that it will distract corporations from the real business of business. American firms, facing ever tougher competition both at home and abroad, need to look beyond the short- term search for a merger partner or takeover target and get back to making products and services for tomorrow's customers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let's Make a Deal | 12/23/1985 | See Source »

...almost wholly unchildlike. Columbus says he scoured Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's books for hints at the genesis of the "cold, emotionless bachelor" that Holmes was to become. At one point, Columbus reports, one of young Holmes' instructors tells the youngster never to "let your emotions distract...

Author: By Thomas M. Doyle, | Title: Chris Columbus | 12/12/1985 | See Source »

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