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...theater, looks artificial in closeup. Burton provides a curiously bland Dysart who lacks the high-pitched emotional constipation that both Anthony Hopkins and Alec McCowen brought to stage productions. Lumet tries to save the day by flooding Burton's speeches with melodramatic lighting and music, but no such makeshift remedy can cure Equus of its congenital limp. - Frank Rich
...said one of Menachem Begin's Cabinet members last week, after Begin checked into the hospital complaining of exhaustion on Sept. 30. The hospital became, in effect, Israel's seat of government. Begin's three top assistants, along with his secretary, Yona Klimovizky, all moved into makeshift offices set up in the hospital's intensive care unit. Three direct phone lines were installed, including one secure line for long distance calls...
They got to Logan on time but their chartered Air New England plane didn't. They sat in a boring terminal for nearly three hours and watched George Ford and Boyce Greer play a makeshift game of ping pong, Ford's suitcase serving as the net. The ball was imaginary, but it didn't matter. They didn't score...
...fortress-like Cologne-Bonn airport north of the West German capital was filled with machine-gun-bearing border police, supplemented by plainclothes agents in unmarked cars. Barbed wire surrounded almost every government building, as well as the houses of all high-level officials. Makeshift machine-gun bunkers, constructed of stacked sandbags, appeared on the rooftops of buildings throughout the city's government section along the Rhine. Night and day, armed police stopped virtually every car in the city and suburbs...
...with their hands to keep several patients alive until resuscitators could be turned on again. When back-up generators broke down at Brooklyn's Jewish Hospital and Medical Center, about 100 people had their wounds?mostly cuts from knives and broken glass?cleaned and stitched at a makeshift field hospital set up in the parking lot under high-intensity spotlights powered by fire-department equipment...