Word: knife
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Brechtian theory is all the rage with your smart act these days, and it is reliably reported that one cannot so much as whistle a few bars of "Mack the Knife" in the Square without some pomaded hood appearing from a crevice to explain the finer points of Alienation and Epic Theatre. That David Wheeler and his Theatre Company of Boston have decided to do Brecht their own way is, in itself, refreshing. Describing his brilliant production of Galileo in San Francisco, Herbert Blau wrote, "In approaching Galileo quite differently -- after years of pondering Brechtian notions -- my trust is that...
...Ashe was accused of assaulting another sailor with a knife in Puerto Rico. Before they were jointly tried by a general court-martial, one of Ashe's two co-defendants told the Navy commander defending them that Ashe had been merely a bystander when the assault occurred. On taking the stand, the same man suddenly switched his story and implicated Ashe. Startled, the commander told the court: "I don't think I can represent them both properly." How could he defend one man without attacking the other? Not moved, the court ordered counsel to continue, and found...
...down on the police. Harvard and Princeton experienced numerous such episodes. In 1788 the situation at Harvard was so bad that Professor Eliphalet Pearson kept what he called a Journal of Disorders. "In the hall at breakfast this morning," he recorded on Dec. 9, "bisket, tea cups, saucers & a knife thrown at tutors. At evening prayers the lights were all extinguished by powder and lead." A partial list of college casualties during this period includes one undergraduate dead in a duel at South Carolina College and another at Dickinson, several students shot at Ohio's Miami University, a professor...
REPULSION. In London, gentlemen callers seldom survive their yen for a deadly blonde psychopath (Catherine Deneuve), whose inch-by-inch descent into madness is unreeled with monstrous art by Director Roman Polanski (Knife in the Water...
...story "The Gem of the Gizmos" [Dec. 3], you forgot to mention the use of the paper clip as a surgical tool. Heated in a Bunsen burner, it provides the ideal method of releasing the blood under a smashed fingernail-better than a dentist's drill, a sharp knife, etc. It is painless (the blood cools the clip as soon as it burns through) and fast...