Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cambridge, Scroop, and Grey--are sentenced to death, instead of being borne away to their doom they act out in pantomime (to the accompaniment of claves) their impalement on wooden poles by three guards, turning on their knees to the audience with hands upstretched and then collapsing to the ground. Fair enough--but then the whole silent mime is gone through twice more, which is just plain silly...
...play of this kind, women naturally have to stay out of the fore-ground. But Katharine (Roberta Maxwell), in a pink gown, and Alice (Patricia Elliott), in a pale but one, are delightful as the lady-in-waiting gives an English lesson to her French princess--with no attempt to disguise the scene's bawdy bilingual puns (Henry V is, as a matter of fact, the bawdiest of all the Histories). And Katharine is a charming model of modesty in the wooing scene...
...press. Though it also promises freedom of expression, assembly and association, as well as protection from slavery and inhuman treatment, the declaration leaves the government an all-inclusive out. No court will have the right "to inquire into or pronounce upon the validity of any law on the ground that it is inconsistent with the Declaration of Rights...
...music box ground out Fly Me to the Moon, Cartoonist Charles Schulz presented each of the three Apollo 10 astronauts with toy replicas of Snoopy, the lop-eared dog of derring-do from his comic strip "Peanuts." The hound, along with another of Schulz's characters, Charlie Brown, achieved celestial fame as the code names of the Apollo lunar module and command ship. Schulz naturally wanted to meet the astronauts who had adopted his creations; so they were introduced and exchanged gifts. Schulz received a photo of the space-traveling Snoopy making an inverted rendezvous with Charlie Brown...
...snuffling with a severe cold, Nemecsek ventures onto the turf of the dreaded Red Shirts, gets caught and thrown into a lake. He contracts a fatal illness; burning with fever, he helps the Paul Street boys to victory, then is taken home to die. A week later the disputed ground itself is sentenced to death as the site of a new apartment house. The sacrifice, the armies, the war itself were only a series of absurdities...