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...very beginning. As the light go up, cast members in rags spill out over the stage area and into the audience, assaulting, abusing, fondling, pickpocketing and beating each other. Here is Brecht's London writ small, and the streetsinger (Kermit Norris) croons the familiar "Mack the Knife" over it. But for some reason his costume has no tatters, and his delivery of the ballad is prim and affected. So much for anarchy and dissipation...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Threepennys Worth--Barely | 10/28/1978 | See Source »

MACHEATH HAS TO be a man of the world who knows how to survive, who's grown a little shabby, a little scruffy, perhaps, but who keeps his sense of style along with his white gloves. Allen C. Kennedy's Mack the Knife sounds like a two-bit punk who got lost in Flatbush and somehow ended up in London, 1830. It's not necessarily a wrong-headed interpretation, but it needs strength, consistency, and a sense of Macheath's age--and Kennedy gives it none of these...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Threepennys Worth--Barely | 10/28/1978 | See Source »

...well-thumbed Bible, he scrambled over the fence from Pennsylvania Avenue and managed to scamper 15 yards onto the White House lawn before being met by at least eight Secret Service agents and uniformed guards. Thereupon the slightly built, 35-year-old gate crasher whipped out a three-inch knife from his Bible and slashed one officer's face and another's arm. Wielding long billy clubs like cattle prods, the guards warily circled Henry, poked the knife out of his hand and forced him to the ground. They then took him off to jail; later a magistrate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: In the Secret Service We Trust | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

Sources in the police said yesterday the suspects used a pipe in the first assault which occurred at East Drive near Kresge Auditorium. They added, in the second assault near the Weeks footbridge next to the paddle tennis courts, the suspects used a knife...

Author: By Alexandra D. Korry, | Title: Police Stake Out Business School Area | 10/10/1978 | See Source »

...near Sharm el Sheikh because he loved skin diving in the deep-blue waters: "It seems to me that Israel paid a high price for the chance to get peace. Why should we give up all of Sinai? God forbid, Sadat can take back everything and then stab a knife in our backs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: A Sense of Betrayal | 10/9/1978 | See Source »

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