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...they near their goal-Gabriola, an island on Canada's West Coast -they have been transformed into a pair of unearthly representatives of a pagan diaspora. And not too subtly. The fire and water that drove them from their previous homes are invested with stage magic. Old men mutter about the qualities of wood as if spirits lived in the grain. Llewelyn feels foreshadowings in everything from snatches of movie dialogue to highway billboards. Symbols wash up out of the sea and appear...
...compete in the U.S. Open because of a knee operation, the only question was how fast Mighty Maggie would finish off the field. Nancy Richey lasted only 27 minutes in the semifinals, while Rosemary Casals managed to endure for 56 minutes in the finals. Afterward, Rosemary could only mutter, "Her long arms, they seemed to go all round the court." According to London's Human Biomechanics Laboratory, which recently tested Margaret, her arms are indeed a good 3 in. to 4 in. longer than those of the average woman tested...
...Yale Repertory's theater was once a church, and Brustein has exploited its dark interior to augment the play's supernatural dimension-even to the otiose point of having important speeches delivered from the pulpit. The electronic sound effects that thump and mutter portentously reflect not so much Newness as good, old gothic hokum. But these mechanical excesses hardly detract from a vibrant updating of the quintessential symbol of love 'em and leave 'em. The presentation deserves not to be left in New Haven...
...just watched the television coverage of the Pinkville atrocity, and for the first time I am bitterly ashamed to be an American. All I could do was mutter helplessly, "God damn them! God damn them...
...soldiers were unresponsive to the "teach-out" tactics that the demonstrators adopted. Occasionally one would break down and crack a smile, or mutter under his breath that he wasn't allowed to talk. Thus, save for the threats from the Marshals, the only time I heard a soldier speak was when the paratrooper in front of me turned to his sergeant and said in a disgusted voice. "Somebody's smoking grass...