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...APPARENT, at first sight, that this exhibition is strange. Eighteen statues of Diana standing on one toe and holding a crossbow, eight busts of Benjamin Franklin, 23 plaques of Robert Louis Stevenson, 20 lions crushing 20 serpents--they all seem redundant, somehow. They are not; each sculpture is in some way different from its partner. But they differ in very subtle ways--in the lie of the mane on the lion's neck, in the direction Franklin happens to be looking. Jeanne Wasserman and the staff of the Fogg set up this exhibit to explore these changes; a very well...
...scenery, moving back and forth from the crowded, multi-colored streets of Venice to Portia's country house in Belmont, was well-conceived by Joe Mobilia. In many ways, the scenery deserves the lion's share of the credit for integrating Act Five with the rest of the play. On paper the change from the tragic confrontation of justice and mercy in the high pomp of the Doge's court to the light-headed romanticism and cheeky bawdry of the lover's idyll in Belmont is puzzling. It is difficult to get the bad taste of what has been done...
...Communists Party (PCE), now holding the lion's share of working class support, has yielded to the other parties on a key point: it has withdrawn its opposition to Juan Carlos' accession. In return the other, more centrist, parties have promised the Communists that the PCE's exclusion from the political system--which Juan Carlos has guaranteed to Franco die-hards as well as Washington--will not be tolerated...
Hines displayed flashes of brilliance in several late-season games, exploding in the second half of the Penn contest for 22 points. Sanders expected Hines to carry a lion's share of the offensive burden this winter...
...Lion In Winter. Much fun. Katherine Hepburn plays Eleanor of Aquitaine and gets to turn all her regal frigidity on Henry II. Not to be relied on for your History 30 midterm, but good clean fun without the masochism of Becket or the high-flown rhetoric of Man for All Seasons...