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...small roles I much admire the cool and calculating young Octavius of Philip Kerr, and the oily Decius of John Tillinger. Some of the rest need work, including Bryan Utman as the boy-servant Lucius (a role that Shakespeare had to invent instead of taking over from Plutarch, and was so beautifully done on this stage six years ago by Alan Howard). Utman is not helped at all by the ugly and fussy song composed for him by John Morris...
...everyone is convinced that advances in popular photography bring the medium any closer to realizing its aesthetic potential. Says Peter Bunnell, curator of photography at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art: "Land could invent new cameras every hour and still would not increase the awareness of photography as a creative medium because his cameras are designed for the amateur." Yet few golden ages can occur without first exciting the interest of amateurs, whether as onlookers or as the sources of real artistic talent. Takateru Koakimoto, design chief at Japan's Nikon Inc., recalls that after the original Instamatics...
...fiery spontaneity that greets a Wallace or a Kennedy or even, sometimes, a McGovern. An integral fixture of the national Humphrey campaign has been the potbellied union leaders who could double as precinct bosses. Their rye-and-gravel voices and center-city accents prompted some newsmen following Humphrey to invent a mythical character named Augie. Introducing Humphrey to union crowds, California Labor Chieftain Joe Mazzola likes to tell his audiences: "This man speaks nuttin' but the trut'." He then sternly admonishes the workers: "Get off your butts...
...though he had initially filed a report with superiors which condemned the killings, Thompson submitted another statement that the rescued civilians were hiding in a bunker "located between friendly and hostile forces engaged in a heavy fire fight." Thompson won the Distinguished Flying Cross, even though he had to invent the "heavy" fire fight...
...city's tough consumer-protection code. After more than a year of frustration, Schrag, a onetime N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund attorney, found himself so leeched of civil-libertarian juices that he and his staff "were eager to emulate every police trick we despised, and indeed, ready to invent...