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TIM CARDEN, however, holds the stage and more right from the beginning. It's a pity he wasn't born five hundred years ago: he would have made some king a superb court jester. Not only is he madly ridiculous in his quivering intensity as the mad poet, he is...
A ticket costs 80?. No critics are invited. The playgoers are peasants and factory workers. The show is called Grande Pantomima con Bandiere e Pupazzi Piccoli e Medi (Grand Pantomime with Banners and Puppets Small and Medium), and it is a phenomenal theatrical event. On its present tour, which began...
That such a union should occur first in Texas came as a bit of a surprise, considering that John F. Kennedy had to defend his Catholicism before skeptical Protestant ministers in Houston during the 1960 presidential campaign. But many of those clergymen were Southern Baptists, who do not belong to...
Died. Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury, 81, grande dame of British politics and symbol of the Liberal Party's intellectual-humanist tradition; in London. The daughter of Liberal Prime Minister Herbert Asquith (1908-16), Lady Asquith became her party's most eloquent spokesman in the 1930s. She was twice...
Carnaval, as everyone knows, is the time when Brazil plunges into the world's biggest binge, a wild four-day pageant driven by the intoxicating beat of the samba. There are no politics to carnaval, and no Brazilian government-however tough-minded-would dare deny its people their great...