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This rapid pileup of corpses does not entirely evade the risk of becoming farce, a kind of Marx Brothers tragedy. But whenever the villainy threatens to become laughable, an authoritatively able cast keeps the drama under sobering control. Frank Langella makes Flamineo a smilingly, itchingly venomous blood brother to lago, and Carrie Nye and Eric Berry are absorbingly effective as the duke's second wife and a corrupt cardinal. Director Jack Landau has given the play drive and fury by cutting garrulous speeches and eliminating intrusive ghosts...
...passed the Senate and seems certain of quick approval in the House, Johnson obviously figures that he no longer needs to be so nice. Last week he started pressuring the House to stay in session six days a week, at least through July 10, to act on a big pileup of legislation, in particular his anti-poverty bill...
...great occasion. The Chamber of Commerce Managers Association brightly suggested that each of the state's 9,000,000 motorcar owners honk their horns in unison on Dec. 28. But, as it happened. H-day came at minus7 in perhaps the most spectacular, horn-honking, steel-crunching traffic pileup in vehicular history...
...week more than 50,000 racing fans, including Prince Rainier and Princess Grace, were on hand to see the fun in the 20th Monaco Grand Prix. Everybody got his money's worth. No sooner had the 16 cars roared away from the start than there was a grand pileup. Barreling into the first 180° "Gas Works" hairpin, the U.S.'s Richie Ginther found the accelerator of his British-built B.R.M. stuck tightly to the floor. Helpless, Ginther plowed into the Lotus of France's Maurice Trintignant, slamming it sideways, directly into the path of three other...
...game was just two minutes old when Tuckerman got his first goal converting the rebound from a shot by John Hedreen. A minute and a half later, Tuckerman worked his way into a pileup in front of the Quaker goal, stole the ball from a Penn fullback and banged it by the surprised goalie...