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...Rose, playing Sergeant Match, manages to straighten out the various entanglements and bring this production to a conclusion worthy of Oscar Wilde. The outcome is, of course, happy--the Prentices discover that Miss Barclay and Mr. Beckett are their long lost children, and the family is reunited. Chock full of these incestuous twists, this production of What the Butler Saw remains one of strangest yet most cleverly staged plays of the spring...

Author: By P. GREGORY Maravilla, | Title: Incest, Brits and Freudian Slips | 4/25/1991 | See Source »

...crime. But her selection of which parts to quote and which to leave out reveal her motives. For example, she describes an episode in which Nancy, after an angry encounter with her stepson Michael, then 16, callously told him he had been born out of wedlock to an army sergeant who had gone overseas and never returned. Writes Kelley: "Michael said he was rocked by the heartless way he received the news . . . 'I guess I expected Nancy to be more sympathetic,' he said years later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The First Lady And the Slasher | 4/22/1991 | See Source »

...Blind Mayer" explains, "It's not the old Warsaw anymore. Gone, buried. Once everyone had his own territory. Now the worst lowlife comes here. Nobody knows anybody else...In my day, Commissar Voynov drank brandy with us. The sergeant used to bow to me and show me respect, may I live to be buried in a Jewish cemetary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tale of Sex and Scum in Poland | 4/19/1991 | See Source »

...police sergeant told a Crimson reporter that University rules prohibited the presence of cameras inside the Law School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Force Photographers To Leave Law School Protest | 4/11/1991 | See Source »

...trash compactor was running, and when I heard the baby crying, I turned it off," says McArthur Williams, a porter at the housing project. "If it hadn't cried, the baby would have been gone for sure." Patrol sergeant | Philip Insardi, who was summoned to the scene, said he crawled through the compactor's small metal doors and shined a flashlight onto the mount of garbage that was about to be squeezed between the machine's walls. "His feet were sticking out from under some newspapers," he said. "He wasn't making a peep when I got there." Insardi whipped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miracle In Brooklyn | 4/8/1991 | See Source »

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