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The production's success begins, as one would expect, with Catherine Ingman's stage direction. A constant, careful and oftentimes outrageous choreography of cast members supplements the humor of the script. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert's wit is very much couched in wordplay and innuendo, and Ingman creates--in effeminate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: G&S 'Pirates' Combines Physical, Verbal Derring-Do | 12/12/1996 | See Source »

The fine art of gaming requires precision tools. While a joystick is perfect for the sharp pitches of a flight simulator, a more refined controller is needed for sports and fighting games. Rather than opting for a space-age design, Microsoft based its new Game Pad on that outback classic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GADGETS | 11/25/1996 | See Source »

Fifty years is a long time to obstruct justice. The Swiss are worried about their world image? Ah yes, this is the benign country of chocolate, precision timepieces, army knives, downhill skiing, Heidi and William Tell. Hogwash! The Swiss are the people who do business with and protect organized crime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 25, 1996 | 11/25/1996 | See Source »

The relationship between faith and science can be vexing, but one way the Roman Catholic Church and mainstream Protestant denominations reconcile the two is to say they each deal with different spheres of knowledge and so are not in conflict. This is a sort of metaphysical version of Christ's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VATICAN THINKING EVOLVES | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

So what about the mimes? A trio of French clowns, Les Macloma, is tiresome in its first two appearances, beguiling in its third (a snatch of music played on two balloons and a one-string violin). But John Gilkey, Quidam's emcee, is a gawky delight, especially in a dance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: FORGIVE THE MIMES | 10/14/1996 | See Source »

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