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...that. Othello is riddled with a special brand of vanity and pride that British Critic F.R. Leavis has called "self-approving self-dramatization." Apparently no actor, not Gunn or even Olivier, can bring himself to expose the actorish self-absorption and self-inflation that push Othello to his doom...
...Electrician Jack Miller grinned: "How would I know? I only know Harold's made it happen." Heath, who warns of a new onset of inflation that w;ll eat up the higher wages, has been unable to excite the generally well-off electorate with his prophecies of economic doom...
...easy. It's getting back out that's a problem. Once the first half of this concert had plunged itself into the lower depths, nothing could lure it back. As the gastroenterologists settled back into their seats, and the balcony dwellers returned from the bar, a sudden portent of doom came over me. A portent, as it turns out, eminently justified...
...even if Harvard might be able to slip by Princeton on determination, depth, and guts, the return of senior Rich Howell to the number-three position on the ladder might doom the Crimson's hopes, Howell, who played at number two last year, has missed the last week-and-a-half of competition because of a National Guard hassle that kept him shuttling between the college and Atlanta, but he will definitely play this weekend, much to the Crimson's disadvantage...
...revolutionary implications of ecology. The play tells two mortality tales-the first mourning the death of a once-upon-a-time lovely river (killed by a polluting Union Carbide plat) and the second extolling praise upon the Good Samaritan who saves a weary, fellow traveler from the certain doom of thirst, resulting from the impurification of the river's water...