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...charge of women, because Allah hath made the one of them to excel the other...
...possible to have a good Hamlet almost in vacuo. But a good Othello is impossible without a good Iago, and vice versa. Alfred Drake shows here that he can excel in something besides musical comedy. He brings a welcome restrained maturity to the role, and we are spared the moustache-twirling, eyeball-rolling villain. Instead of black garb with cape, how refreshing to see Iago in a series of brown costumes! Although he occasionally indulges in too studied a pose, he handles his lines with nuanced variety, often spitting them out rapidly in keeping with Iago's lightning-quick intellect...
...will be interesting to note whether there will ever be a horse to excel her," said the show judge who gave Pippin the first of her 203 blue ribbons. Until the day Seaton Pippin was chloroformed last week, there never...
Notwithstanding our urge to excel...
...surprised at Knowland's news as Goodie Knight, such political speculation was suspended while the niceties of senatorial eloquence were observed. Two days after Knowland announced his retirement, colleagues on both sides of the Senate aisle seized half an hour for a peculiar ritual at which they excel: lauding each other in terms that would make an egomaniac blush...