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...Island, N.Y. It will not come as a surprise that Pat Hingle imbues his role with the warmest humanity As Monica, Deborah Offner impressively combines girlish fantasy with bride-of-death gravity. Michael Kahn's direction is a manual of professional devotion, and the McCarter has a small gem on its hands...
...must protest the decision to have Camillo substitute the humdrum word "undress" in discase thee instantly." "Discase " is a gem of a word (Shakespeare would use it again in The Tempest). Once you start this tinkering, where do you stop? The Winter's Tale has quite a number of obsolete or arcane terms that occur nowhere of obsolete or arcane terms that occur nowhere else in Shakespeare--such as neb, hoxes, callet, losel, pugging, dibble, caddises, barne, and pettitoes. Are these to be thrown out too? Let audiences do their homework, or suffer the consequences. (Some years back, Robert Graves...
...TWENTIES musical can be a demanding genre. It usually requires the audience to accept a ridiculous plot, a troupe of two-dimensional characters, and a rapid succession of bad jokes. But it's worth making allowances for all these things. Not only do you get an occasional gem of a character and a few priceless one-liners, but thrown in with the prices of admission are the things that make the twenties musical one of the crown jewels of the American theater--songs and dances that transcend the plot breathe life into the characters, and float the audience into...
When it comes to relaxing, U.S. troops in Korea are the beneficiaries of 22 years of peacetime-or at least, trucetime-refinements. Officers' clubs and enlisted men's recreational facilities have been continually improved and some now boast bowling alleys, photography darkrooms, and gem-polishing workshops. Camp Casey has carefully trimmed lawns, a well-stocked trout pond, a nine-hole golf course with green fees at a pre-inflation $5 per month, two swimming pools and a huge gymnasium...
...Sadat-and the rest of the world-it was to be a week of high-stakes diplomacy. Despite the gemütlich surroundings, the Salzburg talks were considerably more than mere window dressing designed to give the impression of activity. Peace negotiations have been at an impasse for two months, ever since the collapse of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's shuttle between Israel and the Arab states. Said a White House security adviser: "The most dangerous thing is to do nothing. We can't afford that." Warned Egypt's Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy: "The Middle East...