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...helical columns, twinkling lights, and vegetation that might have been sketched by Fragonard, the repertory group succeeds amply where most productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream turn up shy, playing it with such insouciant broadness that the steady laughter of the audience all but rubs out the lion's roar from the zoo next door. Performances are uniformly first-rate, from Albert Quinton's dolphin-eyed, full-fathomed Bottom to giant Negro Actor James Earl Jones's Oberon, who as the fairy king somehow suggests Paul Robeson on point. Joel Friedman's direction finds...
...Chicago's Olympia Fields Country Club, the Golf Writers Association of America trotted out the new Walter Hagen Trophy, which is to be awarded yearly for "distinguished contribution to the furtherance of Anglo-American golf" in the name of the longtime lion of the links who first won respectability for the once sub-pariah professional. When the selection committee finally chose the award's first winner, it turned out to be Hagen himself, now 68 and an executive of the Wilson Sporting Goods...
Jimmy Riddle, by Ian Brook. "Who clipped the lion's wings?" asked T. S. Eliot. In this satirical novel about the decline of the British Empire in Africa, a former colonial official answers the question with a masterful spoof...
...whether corrosive city is preferable to deadening land-is never convincingly asked, although Rocco is supposed to end with its answer. Worst is the endless mayhem. Visconti's camera is a carnivore, stalking for blood and bruised flesh, and the sight is fascinating. But it is like a lion tearing at a zebra: only a spectator with a great hatred for zebras can watch it for long...
...shape with lion body and the head...