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...York uses them to verify signatures on checks and important documents. The Los Angeles Clippers basketball team sends game scores and players' statistics to newspapers by fax. Edward Scripps, chairman of the Scripps League Newspapers chain, carries one wherever he goes, even aboard his company yacht, the Eagle Mar, so that he can send suggestions for editorials to his publishers...
DiPrima's cast gives a competent reading to the material, and Stoppard's clever lines could probably withstand even the most brutal student production. But simple problems mar the production, particularly failed attempts at British accents and a failure to alter annoying British colloquialisms; phrases as "wind screen" instead of "windshield," "shaving foam" instead of "shaving cream" distract the audience for no purpose. Inspector Hound, moreover, at longer than an hour, begins to grate. DiPrima would have been wiser to slice out a third of the dialogue, and concentrate on the sparkling delivery of the remainder...
...Morris stages an uncritical celebration: Mayor Fiorello La Guardia gets six paragraphs, the city's restaurants get seven, and "Smelly" Kelly, who sniffed out gas leaks along the IND subway tracks, gets one. Morris, whose customary voice is that of cool detachment, allows a gee-whiz tone to mar the text: "Where else, in 1945, could you have your photograph taken by an unmanned machine (the Photomaton), or go to a theatre on the fiftieth floor of a skyscraper (the Chanin Building), or for that matter get an electric shock just from touching a door handle, in a city...
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who is concerned that the violence might mar next month's parliamentary elections, urged his countrymen last week to "use your heads" and ignore "rumormongers who would destabilize Egypt." Meanwhile, the Ministry of the Interior contended that the puzzling crosses were formed by dye stains in the synthetic fabrics used in Muslim dress...
...Beanpot consolation) 13 Harvard 8, Colgate 3 18-3 14 Harvard 3, Cornell 0 19-3 20 Harvard 4, RPI 1 20-3 21 Harvard 3, Vermont 0 21-3 27 Harvard 5, Clarkson 0 22-3 28 St. Lawrence 4, Harvard 3 (OT) 22-4 Mar. 6 Harvard 6, Brown 2 23-4 7 Harvard 5, Brown 2 24-4 (ECAC Quarterfinals) 13 Harvard 4, RPI 1 25-4 (ECAC Semifinals) 14 Harvard 6, St. Lawrence 3 26-4 (ECAC Championship) 20 Harvard 7, Bowling Green 1 27-4 21 Harvard 3, Bowling Green 0 28-4