Word: sherlocks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dunster House Drama Society's production of Moonchildren never fully creates the illusion of an initial community of friends, so the dissolution of that community is less heart-rending than it should be. Nevertheless, this production is enlivened by a few very funny moments, and standout performances by Diane Sherlock as a bizarre specimen of hippiedom and David Moore as Bob, who gives rise to the only moments of real tension in the play...
...stud who steals Kathy away from Bob. He should be a visual foil to Bob--both bigger and better looking, but though O'Brien speaks and moves smoothly, he doesn't have the physical presence to do justice to the part. In contrast, Tony Horowitz as Norman and Diane Sherlock as Shelley are marvelously convincing caricatures. Ethan Dmitrovsky plays Willis the landlord Archie Bunker-style; his dream monologue is the most haunting moment of the play...
...Cooks while puttering about his daily cooking or gardening chores, then sit down and type out a complete mystery in 38 days of writing. Stout's agoraphobic master sleuth, who made his first appearance in Fer-de-Lance (1934), was an intuitive armchair detective in the manner of Sherlock Holmes. Wolfean devotees have contended that their hero's infinite array of adroit solutions stemmed from his creator's multifaceted life. A youthful mathematical prodigy, Stout was a prolific freelancer, an ardent champion of political causes and a jack-of-most-trades who at various times trained jumping...
...Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. The Establishment again beckoned; the RSC had asked Wood four times before he agreed to join them. To his relief, "they accepted me completely." The RSC is now home. He can do what he wants: an iconoclastic Brutus in 1972, then the suave, icy Sherlock Holmes last year. The company even helped him buy a house. Now he has moved his wife Sylvia and their three children to the mellow-stoned Cotswolds town of Chipping Camden, where walking down the street is "like listening to Mozart-organic, inevitable but totally unexpected...
With good reason, many primitive peoples regarded the terrible quakes they could not understand as the acts of a vengeful deity. As late as 1750, Thomas Sherlock, the Bishop of London, told his flock that two recent earthquakes were warnings that Londoners should atone for their sins. John Wesley agreed. In a 1777 letter to a friend, he wrote...