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Despite the title, Shark is not another Jaws rip-off. It concerns two days--the eve and the aftermath of a day-long golf tournament--in the lives of (what else?) several golf caddies. Playwright T.J. Camp focuses on the trivia of his characters' lives--quarrels, flirtations, games--that scratch the surface of more serious conflicts, mostly based on the black caddies' feelings about working in an all-white country club. Only the tips of these deeper issues appear, however; what dominates is verbal and slapstick wit. At the Boston Center for the Arts at the Ehrlich Theatre, 536 Tremont...
...five foot square patch of grass that will be used to grow avocados. Swallowing my intellectual pretensions, I also made the required trip to Universal Studios, but was enraged to find that the Jaws exhibit was not operating that day. 3000 miles from New York and Bruce the Shark isn't home when I get there...
...Stoppard were not a playwright, he would probably be a magician-or a card shark. He delights in illusions and confusions, puns and verbal crostics, taking away with his left hand what he has just given with his right. In Every Good Boy Deserves Favor, at Washington's Kennedy Center, he has taken his art to its immediate limit: the play itself is a trick...
...Short and the Tall), later in American movies, where he portrayed a wide-ranging gallery of rogues. Among them: a sinister assassin in From Russia with Love, Henry VIII in A Man for All Seasons, a glowering Irish gangster in The Sting and, in his most popular role, the shark hunter Quint in Jaws...
...became known that Houston's scrappy little Texas International Airlines had quietly bought more than 9% of National's stock; later it won Civil Aeronautics Board permission to pick up as much as 25%. As one Wall Street analyst put it, Texas International was a "sardine chasing a shark." Last week the swivel chairs in airline board rooms were spinning again as a whale declared its interest in National. Pan American World Airways, the fifth biggest U.S. airline, said it wanted to buy all of National's shares and was ready to spend $300 million...