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...than these actors do. There is only one stridently monotonous note in Roberta Maxwell's voice box. Her Juliet is a fishwife haggling unsuccessfully over a flounder rather than a young girl losing the world and her dear life for love. David Birney's Romeo is so limp and bland that it comes as a wondrous surprise that he has either the will or strength to climb to Juliet's balcony. Mercutio, that man from whom words flow like liquid light, emerges in David Rounds' rendering as little more than a stand-up nightclub comic...
...high Government official." For the Secretary, the extended negotiations presented special psychological and physical hardships. Psychologically, he was becoming the victim of his own success; each achievement made the succeeding goal more difficult to reach. Physically, he worked at a pace that left aides and accompanying newsmen limp with exhaustion. Days began with early breakfasts in the King David suite he shared with Nancy Kissinger. Those few quiet moments were soon followed by conferences, cables covering a range of other State Department business, fast glimpses at news summaries and furious airport runs. He communicated with President Nixon as often...
Beyond the Looking Glass convinces one that the original English fairy tales were not limp, sentimental daydreams. Although dominated by a sense of childish innocence, sinister, occult and perverse notions filtered into the stories through their roots in country lore. If you take this book to a quiet place, where the noises of an increasingly cynical and materialistic world don't penetrate, it's not hard to remember the ancient magic of earth, seed, and plough...
...Going Limp...
Smith said that the demonstrators resisted attempts to dislodge them by going limp and forcing police to carry them individually from the building...