Word: moroccos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Robert Kya-Hill, in a white robe with gold trim, is an imposing Prince of Morocco, but he doesn't get out of the part as much as Earle Hyman did a decade ago. (As often done, Morocco's two scenes are fused into one, which is detrimental to the play's structure, such as it is). When he chooses wrong and has departed, Portia points up the racial slur in her tag-line, "Let all of his complexion choose me so." As for the Prince of Arragon, James Valentine makes him a heavily accented and logorrheicninny; and, when...
...Portia is out-and-out dishonest. When the suitors for her hand come to make their choices from among the caskets, they are of course supposed to have free rein, as prescribed in her father's will. But this Portia does everything she can to lead the princes of Morocco and Arragon to a wrong choice and Bassanio to the right one. She cheats on her own father...
Miniskirts may be popular with the women who wear them, but in the past few months they have been denounced by ex-President Eisenhower, condemned by Designer Coco Chanel, blasted by King Hassan II of Morocco, banned in Tunisia, prohibited in Rumania, and ridiculed at Ascot. Nowhere, however, has the reaction been as cutting as in the populous copper-belt towns of northern Zambia. There, thigh-high skirts have become the objects of a fanatic "culture campaign" directed by local members of President Kenneth Kaunda's United National Independence Party (U.N.I.P...
...were harangued by 15 lawyers and deluged with more than 5,000 documents. Last week the trial finally came to a halt. Only two defendants drew any significant rap: the part-time secret-service agent got eight years in prison; a vice-squad cop six. Oufkir, still safe in Morocco, was sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment, as were the four French gangsters who are still on the lam. Colonel Dlimi, who dramatically surrendered to French police during the trial, was acquitted along with the remaining defendants...
...which cleared the way for a resumption of normal relations between France and Morocco-even though one vital question remained unanswered: What happened to Ben Barka...