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...comfortable as this production is to watch, it retains the play's stark dramatic moments. The slow pacing of these scenes, as well as the play's long denouement, makes Merchant seem even longer than its two-and-a half hours. The Merchant of Venice is a pleasant gondola ride, but if it were any more languorous, it would be up a creek...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Venetian Binds | 11/6/1987 | See Source »

...this child coming with Petra and I really don't feel like I should go around for the rest of my life having a charge ... from the United States hanging over my head," Roberts said. "It's not a very pleasant prospect to look forward...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AWOL Army Private Returns From USSR | 11/5/1987 | See Source »

Deaver seems to have made a strong comeback from alcoholism, and is dealing well with the strain of his impending trial. "He is a man at peace with himself," says a friend. "He's in marvelous mental shape, relaxed, pleasant and interested in gardening." Indeed, the day before jury selection began, Deaver was in his garden planting spring bulbs, a gesture that bespeaks some hope for the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pondering A High-Proof Defense | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

Linebackers: From being unknowns at season's start, Kris Thabit and Richard Mau have become Harvard's most pleasant surprise of the year. The pair played outstandingly against Northeastern's Wishbone formation, and solidly ever since. Grade: B-plus...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: The Gridders' Report Card | 10/22/1987 | See Source »

...from researchers at France's Pasteur Institute. He dismisses as a myth the competing claim of Robert Gallo of the National Cancer Institute and, quoting U.S. researchers, strongly implies that Gallo stole the French strain and presented it as his own, a charge Gallo denies. Shilts labels as a "pleasant fiction" a 1987 U.S.-French political accord that settled lawsuits and deemed Gallo and France's Dr. Luc Montagnier "co-discoverers" of the virus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Appalling Saga of Patient Zero | 10/19/1987 | See Source »

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