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...intimate circle of papal advisers. In 1964 the Pontiff selected Marcinkus, a born organizer, to be his advanceman for trips abroad. During the visit of Paul VI to Manila in 1970, the athletic Marcinkus helped to subdue a Bolivian artist disguised as a priest who tried to stab the Pope. Paul VI put him in charge of the Vatican bank in 1969. Last year John Paul II gave Marcinkus the task of running Vatican City's administration; with the new job came the title of archbishop and the prospect that Marcinkus would some day become a Cardinal...
...American Shakespeare Theatre is now presenting Hamlet for the fourth time in its history. In 1958 Fritz Weaver gasped and wheezed his way through an only moderately cut text, with a running-time of three hours and a quarter. In 1964 Tom Sawyer made an admirable stab at the role in a version with a playing time of two hours and three quarters...
...also in cohabitation." The sheer energy of the show indicates that they have worked hard to merge their personalities and lifestyles with those of the characters they play--a 24-hour-a-day pysche-up technique. And because they generally succeed, one is tempted to forgive their self-conscious stab at hippydom, as well as the program notes urging the audience to "stand up and join in confronting [the show's] issues, which have taken fresh meaning in recent months...
Last week Congress made a kind of final, flailing stab at reducing those deficits to a manageable level in an effort to return some stability to the economy. The legislators failed miserably in their effort, and in so doing they left the way open for yet another devastating run-up in interest rates, which have bedeviled the economy throughout the Reagan presidency and indeed during much of the Carter presidency that preceded it. The renewed upward pressure now threatens harm to businesses large and small alike, and indeed to everyday people by the millions. They can do little but stand...
...Orpheus, Agon, Symphony in Three Movements) that Balanchine has set to Stravinsky over a period of 50 years. Balanchine worked out key elements of his style-bold, intricate, whip-fast-to this music. Stravinsky's rhythms and punctuation are the idiom of City Ballet dancers, so that their stab-kicking, hip-swiveling, long-leaping display is a unique ballet chronicle...