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...last week's celebrations, an hour-long parade recalled Iran's many dynasties. To represent the Achaemenians, who wore long beards, 200 Iranian soldiers did not shave for months; in the interests of authenticity, the government turned down a Japanese firm's offer of fake beards. There were also Sassanians, Parthians and Safavids-right down to the 20th century, when the Shah's father, General Reza Khan, a professional soldier of near-peasant origin, seized power in a 1921 army coup. He was ousted by the British and Russians during World War II for inconveniently keeping...
...problems are recognized, there is little revelation in setting them forth on stage. Inevitably, Berrigan's play is' as much a documentary as it is a work of theater, a documentary in the style of WGBH's Murder One, a pilot attempt at condensing an important trial into an hour-long television re-creation for the purpose of public information. If anything distinguishes The Trial of the Catonsville Nine from this new form of reporting, it's Berrigan's effort to connect, to force recognition of the relationship between a criminal trial in Maryland and the burned and maimed bodies...
...intermittently accurate account of my article on I.Q., David Caploe relies extensively on direct quotation. Since he seemed to be taking only a few pages of notes during an hour-long interview, this might suggest an extraordinary feat of memory. But, in fact, virtually nothing in his article was literally direct quotation (at least of me), and much of it was not even passable paraphrase. Sincerely, R.J. Herrnstein Professor of Psychology...
Neither professor spared the rod--they assigned a total of ten, plays, four books and untold pounds of articles, and they managed to squeeze ten hours of lectures each into the five-day semesters. The alumni were duly diligent: classes began at 8:45 a.m., continued until 1 p.m., and then resumed in the form of hour-long section meetings after lunch...
...their scientific experiments. Placing black sleep shades over their eyes, the astronauts saw the strange light flashes that have been reported by spacemen on previous voyages. Scientists believe high-energy cosmic rays impacting on the eye's retina or the brain's optical center cause the flashes. During the hour-long test, the astronauts reported seeing a total of 61 flashes, which Scott compared to a flashbulb's popping in a darkened arena...