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...fourth consecutive season, takes a valiant fling at the part. His "sword of heaven" soliloquy is neatly spoken, discreetly underlined by one horn, then a second horn, harp, and flute. But Richardson is most effective in finding humorous aspects in the role, such as when, on donning a monk's disguise, he mimies Friar Peter's rolling of the hands. (Shakespeare had already used the ruler-in-disguise device in Henry V, when the king wanders incognito among his troops just before the Battle of Agincourt...
...last week that they were about to be wed, Berrigan wasted no time denying the story as "absurd and untrue" on the ground that they were already married. Nonetheless, two days after his denial, the couple were legally wed in Montclair, N.J., by the Rev. Paul Mayer, an ex-monk who is also married...
Still, as readers of Monk Dawson and The Professor's Daughter already know, he can roll a mean thunderclap and make it spell damnation...
...turbaned monk squatted in a waterless pool in New Delhi, held a match to his gasoline-soaked saffron robes and burned himself to death. The day before, a silent protest march by his fellow believers had turned into a riot. Demonstrators shouted "Death to the police!" and 238 of them were arrested in a flurry of tear gas and lath-is (long sticks...
...Bormann disappeared in a swirl of Soviet artillery fire in the ruins of Berlin, 27 years after he was condemned to death by the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, 23 years after he was reported to be alive in Russia, 21 years after he was said to be a monk in Italy, and less than half a year after Spy-Story Teller Ladislas Farrago claimed that he was still living as a millionaire in Argentina, a West German court last week formally pronounced the Nazi leader dead−along with all the rumors about his escape...