Word: eves
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moment, he implores his invisible mentor: "Merlin, if I must fall in battle, do not let me die bewildered." The entire play is essentially a flashback, beginning just before his first encounter with Lady Guinevere (Laurie Meyers). Korn suddenly transforms into a frisky young king, pleasantly nervous on the eve of his wedding. No matter which incarnation of Arthur he is creating, shy playful fellow or idealistic ruler or tortured husband, Korn plays multifaceted despot with warmth, subtlety and unerring dramatic consistency...
...original novel, written by coscreenwriter Gerald Petievich (a former Treasury agent) was an absorbing tortoise-and-he-hare yarn about two separate teams of T-men on the trail of the same master counterfeiter. But Freidkin kills off the tortoise (a sympathetic older cop on the eve of his retirement) in the first reel to provide Chance, his amoral anti-hero, with a stock revenge motive; yet he then fails to develop this element of the story. He cut out the emotional heart and balance of the book, and you can only assume that this is exactly what he wanted...
...when Medved was interviewed a second time by State Department officials, he denied that he had ever wanted to defect. And not wanting to jeopardize U.S.-Soviet relations on the eve of the first superpowwow in six years, Administration officials decided not to press the issue...
...election eve, the city council last night adjourned with unusual speed to give incumbents one last night of campaign preparation. Candidates said they were planning for the worst weather situation and were getting more volunteers to drive people confined to their homes to the polls...
Following a 10-year election eve tradition, City Councilor Thomas W. Danehy said he wrapped up his campaign last night by knocking on the door of the same North Cambridge household on Gold Star Road and then going to get his car washed...