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However, as the play progresses, the 40's motif is abandoned. Ophelia (Nora Connell) and Laertes (Adam Freed) travel backwards in time with each costume change. This mixed-era wardrobe becomes most distracting in the case of the of a courtier (Vicki Wiseblatt) who is dressed as if she had just left Versailles. Wiseblatt sported an enormous red hat which upstaged everything and everyone on stage...

Author: By Margaret H. Gleason, | Title: Hamlet Unable to Sustain Innovation | 4/11/1991 | See Source »

Mulford's staging innovations are initially quite arresting. The farewell scene between Polonius (James Marino) and Laertes is especially humorous. As he utters the immortal words, "To thine own self be true," Marino writes a check for his son. Freed spends much of the scene grasping for the paper, evidently more interested in acquiring his father's money than his advice...

Author: By Margaret H. Gleason, | Title: Hamlet Unable to Sustain Innovation | 4/11/1991 | See Source »

What Fulminante did not know was that Sarivola was an FBI informant. On the basis of his talks with Sarivola, as well as a second admission that he made to Sarivola's fiance after both men were freed, Fulminante was brought back to Arizona, where he was tried, found guilty of the girl's killing and sentenced to death. His conviction was overturned by the Arizona Supreme Court, which held that his confession was coerced because it was made under the pressure of a plausible threat of violence. Ironically, despite its ruling that forced confessions could be harmless in some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Confessions That Were Taboo Are Now Just a Technicality | 4/8/1991 | See Source »

...have been accomplished. Saddam Hussein will still be in power, oil prices will still be subject to the will of OPEC, and that alleged principle of not rewarding aggression--well, we all know how consistently it will be upheld in the future. My argument, however, is that an Iraq freed from the reign of Saddam Hussein can, if not totally justify our actions, at least salvage some of our principles and maybe even allow a sense of pride...

Author: By Nader A. Mousavizadeh, | Title: If Saddam Stays, The U.S. Loses | 4/6/1991 | See Source »

...Skip" in question was Edward ("Skip") Gnehm Jr., 46, the U.S. ambassador to Kuwait. The "problem" was really a fear. Many Kuwaitis were afraid that the U.S., after having freed their country from Iraq's domination, aimed to run the place as an American colony and that Skip Gnehm was George Bush's designated proconsul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Political Interest Our Man in Kuwait | 3/25/1991 | See Source »

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