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Falstaff very much holds the stage here, now in witty talk of this or that, now in tavern scenes with Doll Tearsheet or Mistress Quickly, now in his travels through the Gloucestershire of Shallow and Silence. He is still marvelously exuberant, ingenious, incorrigible, but his revels are now ending. He and his cronies, whether sluts or simpletons, are tarnished with age and touched with pathos. But. more than that. Henry IV draws near his end, and soon a playboy Hal's untroubled head must wear the crown. Shakespeare now, against the last thinned merrymaking of rascals, counterposes the making...
...letting out the anchor of a 36-ft. ketch when the chain tightened, cutting off half of his ring finger. While Belloc went on to the ballpark and got the remaining part of his finger bandaged at the stadium clinic, his 16-year-old son Martin searched in the shallow water, finally found the missing half. It was delivered to the clinic after Hilary Belloc had left, and was placed in a Dixie cup. Outside the park, Belloc heard that part of his finger had arrived back inside, tried to re-enter Candlestick by telling a gateman his story...
Last week, on the lovely beach at the fashionable resort of Guincho, near Lisbon, a fisherman's dog dug into the sand, uncovered a shallow grave in which lay the body of a man. He had been shot in the back of the head and through the heart, was dressed in a sweater, grey trousers and black shoes-placed on the wrong feet. The dead man was identified as Captain Jose Santos...
...destroyed. I am reminded of the old proverb: 'Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.' " TV COMMERCIALS: "Why should an actress, no matter how beautiful or talented, know more about an icebox than my wife?" RELIGIOUS PUBLICATIONS: "Most of the so-called devotional material is shallow and meaningless tripe that makes me sick to my stomach." THEOLOGIANS: "Many influential theologians of our day have moved from the ruins of a devastated Europe to the libraries of the theological schools and have carried defeatism into these sacred precincts-locking themselves up in their little cells with their...
...tons, the biggest warship West Germany can build under the 1954 protocols to the Brussels Treaty. Also to be launched, later in the year: the first of twelve U-boats, conventionally armed. Displacing the maximum permissible 350 ons, they are designed for use in the shallow Baltic and have too restricted a range for use in the Atlantic...