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...play begins to lag when the slap-stick is over. Randall, who himself plays the part of Malvolio, has turned the obvious solution of mistaken identities and misconceived ideas into minor melodrama at times. This converts Malvolio, actually a man of simple vanity and self-love, into a deep and muddled man. While it leads to great exploration of his character, underscoring of Malvolio's role seems disconcerting because he is actually superficial and should not arouse any real sympathy. Initially Malvolio's frustrations are good fun in the bawdy pattern of the designs against him, but later his quasipathos...
...none of the newly independent nations of the Far East is hatred for the disinherited colonial masters so bitter and abiding as in Indonesia; in none is the notion of simple courtroom justice so little understood. Indonesia's bitterness and its slap-happy courtroom practices have reached fever pitch in the year-long trial of Leon Nicolaas Jungschlaeger, a 52-year-old Dutch citizen accused of conspiring to overthrow the Indonesian government. The Jungschlaeger case has become a cause celebre throughout Indonesia and The Netherlands...
Government officials admitted privately that the magazine tax was a vote-catching political device. The Liberal government has lately been under heavy opposition attack for the freedom it has allowed U.S. investors in Canada. With a general election coming up next year. Liberal strategists figured that a loud public slap at U.S. magazines, putting themselves in the role of staunch defenders of Canadian culture against outside influences, would be an easy way to make the government look good without doing any heavy damage to Canada-U.S. trade. Not to be overlooked either was the good chance that the Canadian...
With time running out, Grays' Charlie Devens took a pass from teammate Dave Holmes and scored on a slap shot from 40 feet out to win the game...
...Apprentice) Dukas found him breakfasting in a cafe and insisted that he come at once to his studio. There he presented Rubinstein with a handful of pornographic pictures. "Why?" asked Artur. "Because that's the only thing you seem to be interested in these days," said Dukas. That slap in the face and the stern lecture that followed sent Rubinstein to the country and a milk diet. But after a short while there was another love affair ("Terrible, terrible-I had to fight a duel with the husband"), and Rubinstein was soon thin as a stick again...