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...best measure of good theatre. And it isn't as if Earnest presents no pitfalls to void. The Agassiz production, in fact, sidesteps one of them a little too closely. Wilde's jokes can easily be over-exploited, with the result that you laugh hard at the outset, but tire around the middle when the characters become little more than the jokes they spout. It is rather like watching a star-studded cast and not being able to forget who they...
...this way, the scientists can decide quickly whether things are running smoothly, and whether the experiment should be continued. Under ordinary condition, data cannot be sifted until weeks after the experiment. After all is done, the scientists may find that something went awry at the outset, and everything afterwards should have been altered to compensate. This project will be attempted...
Guiness portrays a combination hero's-brother-in-law-secret-policeman-movie-narrator, who, at the outset, is confronted with Rita Tushingham as an orphaned Russian peasant girl. Miss Tushingham has wisely made a habit of playing lasses of English extraction, but by the mere application of a little makeup and a babushka she become as Russian as Lithuania...
...From the outset, the project has been plagued by headaches that would have strained the patience of Penelope. It took two years, for example, to assemble the site, and then the ground turned out to be full of archaeological treasures, whose salvage slowed construction. "In Greece," says General Manager Paul Lugagne Delpon, "you can't destroy a church, even if it's already destroyed." Tricky renegotiations over the price of electricity with three successive governments are only now nearing conclusion, with the company likely to wind up paying as much as $1,500,000 a year more...
...From the outset, Quill had not shown that he was willing to bargain. The T.A. estimated that his first demands would cost $680 million, one fifth of the total city budget. It had been clear for some time that Quill was intent on calling a strike. He had held up a walkout against the private bus lines for a month so it would coincide with the one against the T.A. Because Lindsay was trying to change the old system of negotiations, Quill was out to show the new mayor "who was boss." He broke off negotiations several hours before...