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Bruce LeNeal Adams as Valentine boasts a wonderfully resonant baritone, and he eases into a hint of falsetto and sly diction worthy of an Al Green. He tends to mumble over Shakespeare's lines, but there's a certain gullible, soft-hearted appeal in his stage presence. Cliff Richmond plays the treacherous Proteus with appropriately self-centered determination. At times he comes on to himself a little bit too strongly, wiping out the supporting cast through sheer force of neglect. But he displays admirable versatility, tripping with facility from the Spanish pronunciation and non-verbal cries of his Puerto Rican...
Jennifer Marre's Julia stands out from the rest of the cast with Elizabethan integrity. Her singing is competent, her spoken Spanish sassy, but her forte lies in the elegant enunciation of Shakespeare's lines with a pleasing hint of an English accent. Her waiting-woman Lucetta (Annie Fine) has the only vaguely Puerto Rican visage of the lot and sings with stern indignation about "The Land of Betrayal." Judy Banks as Silvia dances with enough seductive verve to convince you that indeed she "wouldn't know a spiritual relationship...
...proclaiming to an audience of German generals that he had solved the "Jewish problem," Himmler declared: "You can imagine how I felt executing this soldierly order issued to me, but I obediently complied and carried it out to the best of my convictions." Nowhere else, Irving claims, did Himmler hint at a "Führer order" behind the genocide. But Williams College Historian Robert G.L. Waite, author of The Psychopathic God: Adolf Hitler, argues that "Hitler had told his entourage to 'put as little down on paper as possible.' That an explicit and clear verbal order for genocide...
...Gordon Liddy, 46, eccentric ex-lawyer who was sentenced to 20 years as a ringleader in the original Watergate breakin. The last of the seven Watergate burglars still incarcerated, Liddy has steadfastly refused to talk about the conspiracy, or to show, in John Sirica's words, "even a hint of contrition or sorrow." Nonetheless, President Carter last week decided "in the interest of equity and fairness" to commute the silent conspirator's sentence to eight years. He will thus be eligible for parole from the Allenwood, Pa., federal penitentiary next July. Liddy characteristically said nothing at the news...
...from his music. "He needed to imagine what he could not experience," says Fischer-Dieskau. "That is why he loved poets above all others." The popular image of Schubert is of a genial, easy-going sort who hardly realized his own worth. In fact, "the texts of his songs hint at the bitterness within him ... Sorrow and happiness, humility and arrogance, modesty and pride, contemplation and passion speak to us out of the music...