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...American Shakespeare Festival, in opening its ninth season, has chosen its toughest nut to crack. Under Allen Fletcher's careful direction. Lear (only slightly trimmed) has emerged as a powerful theatrical experience. Despite its shortcomings, the production firmly gives the lie to those who maintain that Lear can exist only in a reader's imagination...
...into the jury box. It was one moment that a casual viewer could appreciate. Last week came another one, as he told his little boy in flashbacks the story of the hours before the child's birth. Semper paratus, he slept in his clothes, dashed around like a nut, and smashed up his car in the driveway. A laundry truck had to drive his wife to the hospital...
Tocsin proved a slightly harder nut to crack as the end of regulation time found the score knotted at two-all. The CRIMSON slapped the peace-loving Tocsin nine with a 21-run eleventh inning, and Tocsin turned the other cheek and also bowed to the inevitable...
Translated from a Latin manuscript into thee-and-thou English by Writer Catherine Van Dyke, the Letter tells how Claudia's son Pilo had his withered foot cured by Jesus. Overcome, Claudia tries to convert her husband to faith in Christ, but Pilate is an intellectual, and a nut about philosophy, and won't bite. From her vantage point near Herod's Palace, Claudia describes Christ's passion in gory detail: "Jesus, bound to a pillar, and standing in a red pool of his own blood." After the Crucifixion, Pilate loses favor with Rome, and ends...
...have heard many wonderful things about you, but they do not compare with what you really are." Good-Will Ambassador Brando was "genuinely overwhelmed by the gentle Thai people. Smiles are pretty hard to come by on Hollywood and Vine." But when a little old lady chewing betel nut asked what he did for a living, Marlon went right back to the mumbles. "I sometimes wonder," he mused, adding, "... I make faces...