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...powerful performances of the other members of the cast, who work both individually and as a troupe to keep the audience laughing throughout. As the fool Osino, Gary Armagnac blends just the right amount of wit and wisdom to successfully mock love and the gentrified aristocracy. Jack Aranson (Sir Toby Belch) and Francis Cuka (Maria) also provide the play with some of its most amusing--and bawdy--humor in their defiance of courtly propriety. And by far the most hilarious performance of the evening is Joseph Costa's portrayal of the cantakeorous Malvolio, whose vanity and self-importance trap...
...loser, with 36% of the ballot, was the Grenada United Labor Party, led by Sir Eric Gairy, 62, the country's first Prime Minister after independence in 1974 and an eccentric, authoritarian figure whose unsavory political history made his possible comeback a cause of much concern in Washington. G.U.L.P. won the remaining parliamentary seat, but then rejected it, alleging electoral fraud. Gairy offered a novel theory to buttress his charges of cheating. According to him, the ballots had been treated with a special chemical that was able to change votes to favor the winners. "Science and technology today...
DIED. Stephen M. Young, 95, cantankerous Ohio Democrat who served 20 years in the House and Senate before retiring at 81; of a blood disorder; in Washington, D.C. Known for his sharp tongue, he would write critics: "Dear Sir: Some crackpot has written me a letter and signed your name to it. I thought you ought to know...
...European civilization simply makes no sense without its spiritual spine, the Bible. So say British Critic Bruce Bernard and Art Historian Sir Lawrence Gowing in The Bible and Its Painters (Macmillan; 300 pages; $24.95), an opinionated and amply illustrated survey of biblical themes in more than 200 paintings produced over six centuries. Rembrandt is, in Gowing's words, "the hero of this book" because he surpassed all artists in getting to the heart of the biblical vision: his works in this volume reach from the famous portrayal of Abraham about to sacrifice Isaac to a shadowy ascension of Jesus...
...this was the year in which Ronald Reagan was re-elected to the White House, but those with a broader historical perspective have other things to commemorate. Like the 400th anniversary of Sir Walter Raleigh's first colony in the New World, the 300th anniversary of the completion of the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles, the 200th anniversary of Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, the 100th anniversary of the first volume of the Oxford English Dictionary and the 50th anniversary of Muzak. Muzak? Wouldn't that be like celebrating the first broadcast singing commercial...