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ANDREI BELGRADER'S As You Like It takes the aggressively self-confident stance that no one--not Shakespeare, not his audiences, certainly not today's audiences--could or can stomach pastoral. This production gleefully aims groin-kicks at each of the text's literary conventions, until their prone bodies threaten to outnumber the actors on stage. Whether Belgrader remains faithful to some indeterminate "author's intentions" or in fact manhandles the play for his own purposes, the final product impartially communicates the matter of Shakespeare's discourse on love, while obliquely making its own points. A deft maneuver...
...When an Italian gay rights activist tried to stage a demonstration in Red Square, he was quickly overwhelmed by uniformed police and plainclothes KGB officers. The police also closed in on a group of journalists who were covering the stunt. U.P.I. Bureau Chief John Moody was kneed in the groin and detained for 25 minutes, two French photographers were roughed up and forced to expose their film and an NBC cameraman had his film confiscated...
...acquaintances she uses for illustration: the cousin who took to bed for 20 years after her father forbade her to marry the man she loved, the car-crazy boyfriend whose kisses tasted of brake fluid, the professor who had an arrowed heart containing the legend "Mother" tattooed on his groin...
Another possible scratch today is catcher Joe Wark. Leading the team with a .556 Eastern League average, Wark has been sidelined with a groin pull...
...secret: during a practice session in Los Angeles, Randy had pulled a muscle high in his left thigh. The injury slowly improved, but 48 hours before the Olympic short program, he had hurt his leg again and, in addition, injured the flexor muscles in the front part of the groin, impairing his ability to lift his legs. Randy and his doctor tried to repair the damage with physical therapy, ice, compression and a local anesthetic, Xylocaine. Nothing worked. Nicks said later: "He'd been trying hard for many days. In my opinion, he couldn't perform, and more...