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...much the errant hand of Puck (Lewis Gordon) who sprinkles the distilled magic flower potion onto the eyelids of the dreamers at the wrong time as it is the master-hand of the Bard. It is he who wakens the star-vexed lovers and sets them in pursuit of those who will scornfully spurn them. It is he who inspires the Queen of the Fairies, Titania (Maggie Smith), to dote in adoration on Bottom (Alan Scarfe) after the head of an ass has been grafted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Stratford's Reunion with the Classics | 6/20/1977 | See Source »

...door slammed, and it was Reed Camfort, his roommate. Camfort strode purposely into the room, his L.L. Bean hiking boots crushing errant tablets into flour, grinding them into the carpet, leaving white spots. He walked over to the stereo, picked out a disk, set it down on the turntable and flipped switched. "The Best of the Best of Merle Haggard" flowed through the air. Reed had put the stylus down on "Mama Tried." The volume was set on seven...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: Any last words, buddy? | 5/27/1977 | See Source »

Last week at the Sprints an errant sailboat crossed the novice's path in the finals, costing them a shot at a respectable finish. This week, Nimgade's power effective, for the eight responded by picking up and driving by a fading Yale boat...

Author: By James E. Mcgrath, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Yale Stops Radcliffe Heavies | 5/23/1977 | See Source »

...player occupied the spotlight and made wheezing sounds that resembled a sick whale mired in primeval mud. Children in bright blue robes played hand bells. Someone rang sleigh bells. Scattered in the balconies, five trumpeters held foil pie plates up like mutes and blew. The string section looked like errant students assigned to the back of the room to repeat the same musical sentence at least 25 times. That was just about the case (see below). High on a ramp, the strings were lined up facing Assistant Conductor David Gilbert in the right rear corner of the stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Star-Child: Innocence and Evil | 5/16/1977 | See Source »

Mafia Hot Line. Detective fiction has it that the .22-cal. pistol with its tiny one-ounce slug is a gnat swatter, at its worst a woman's weapon snatched from a purse to dispatch an errant lover. No self-respecting all-pro killer would carry one. The facts, however, are otherwise. The CIA has long preferred the .22. The agency's predecessor, the Office of Strategic Services, developed a silencer-equipped Hi-Standard .22-cal. automatic pistol during World War II. It turned out to be the only production-model handgun that can be effectively silenced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: New Mafia Killer: A Silenced .22 | 4/18/1977 | See Source »

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