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Admittedly, to produce Shakespeare's Pericles. Prince of Tyre courts disaster. The play is rarely performed and for good reason. An inane plot juxtaposes strength, integrity and innocence--embodied in three main characters, Pericles. Thaisa and Marina--with a passel of debauched and wicked malefactors. Goodness prevails in a series of circumstances and coincidences which quickly becomes a caricature of itself," this day, the play remains of questionable authorship, though a number of well-turned and colorful phrases reveal the Elizabethan Bard. Indeed, language, infages, themes and parallels occasionally redeem the play, but mostly it just sloughs along. Uncut...
...them like his hobby, puppets. Sellars' novel device in Pericles actually does just that--turns actors into puppets, using plastic masks on the evil characters. The technique produces an eerie, sinister effect; the masks, sometimes grotesque, sometimes animal, sometimes human, look frighteningly real. Though without masks, Pericles, Thaisa and Marina are equally un rounded as characters; when Lysimachus removes his mask repenting of his past ways, the easy gimmick becomes a tour de force...
...with many American innovations, gelato has swirled out from California. In the past year, several scoopfuls of competing companies have opened retail shops in Beverly Hills, Marina del Rey, Studio City and other communities. Some of the stores, notably the dozen or so high-tech outlets owned by the San Francisco-based Gelato Classico chain, cannot meet the demand. Some, like A1 Gelato in Elmwood Park outside Chicago and the art deco Gelati per Tutti on Hollywood's trendy Melrose Avenue, have become landmarks, packing in the pilgrims as thick as the product. In hundreds of supermarkets, brightly colored...
...rowing world this weekened East met West, and contract to what Jim Morrison might sing, on the waters of Ballona Creek in Marina del Rey Saturday, the Harvard varsity heavyweight showed 12,000 California fans lining the banks that, at least in crew, the East is the best...
...advocate both appealed; once again the case was referred for investigation. A third trial ensued, this time before the Supreme Court of the Russian Republic. The evidence that the boys were innocent was overwhelming. Among other things, the defense established that the old woman who claimed to have heard Marina cry out was deaf; she had also been at work, not listening at her window, on the day of the murder. Evidence was introduced that witnesses had been suborned. The judge visited the scene of the crime to satisfy himself that the boys could not have committed it. The verdict...