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Practical politics. But is that all? At the Boar's Head tavern, Prince Hal carouses with his companions in open parody of the society at court; at court, "Hotspur" Percy (the other Hal) releases his rage with the complete lack of self-control typical of the society at the Boar. The two worlds, in other words, are peopled with men and women of the same mettle, though any good production of Henry will, as if constructing a strong suit of armor, in joining the various elements hold them in tension...
...burlap of symmetrical castle towers, the comic scenes, appearing in the midst of the serious, only seem to mock them. The peak of this production is reached when Falstaff, balancing his weight on a chair balanced on a table top, wearing a pillow on his head as crown, chastises Hal in mimicry of his father, the king. Even at the climax of the play's final battle scene-in which Hotspur and Hal engage-it is Falstaff the comic spirit who steals the victory, a bit too successfully, quite literally from the jaws of death. As the two Hals meet...
...movie history, portraying the beginnings of man's ascent and the possible end of that progression respectively. The eery genius of the film's bookends has a way of throwing the rest of the narrative into relief, but any movie that features as original a piece of technology as HAL the computer has a lot going for it in the first place, so make those trips to the concession stand brief. The final 20 minutes are positively overwhelming as Kubrick hurls his wayward astronaut through a time warp that makes the color patterns of a kaleidoscope pale by comparison...
...next summer, brings the total of Harvard's contracts for designing the "New Community" to over $1 million. Harvard has nothing to gain financially from the agreement. The money will simply be used to hire officials in the Harvard planning office, to fund the design work, and to dispatch Hal Goyette, director of the Harvard Planning Office, to Iran to oversee the project...
...Hal McRae, John Mayberry and Al Cowens launched home runs yesterday afternoon in the first game of the American League Championship Series to get the Kansas City Royals off on the right foot against the New York Yankees...