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Conrad John Schuck and Kay Story make a delightful pair as Daddy Warbucks and Grace, Warbuck's secretary, in the second half of the first act. Shuck's deep voice and stiff manner are a perfect compliment to Story's soft femininity, and although the set design for the Warbucks mansion is a bit much--The Nike of Samothrace looms in one corner, while Picassos, Mattises, Rembrants and the Mona Lisa also make appearances--it does produce a few chuckles from older members of the audience. Rooster Hannigan, played by Laurent Giroux, and his accomplice Lily St. Regent ("like...
Brown will be faced with a stiff challenge this weekend against an obviously fired-up Harvard squad...
...film suggests that we can indeed learn something from old TV shows. Pleasantville is not so much crying out against television media, as has become the fashion, but rather suggesting we affix a gentle warning label on the myths that it purveys. We can watch stiff sitcom characters in their make-believe worlds and gain the wisdom that it is better, all things considered, to have the element of the unexpected in our lives. Harvard students, take note: the possibility of things not going according to plan is, after all, what keeps us real...
Holbrooke's Balkan ballet this month was a pretty good indicator of why he thrives on such high-octane politics--and why even his critics give him credit for being steel-stiff under pressure. He is, for instance, an expert in the art of intimidation--an essential tool when dealing with Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic. When Holbrooke arrived in Belgrade on Oct. 5, as NATO planners began to tune up a massive strike against the Serbian forces in Kosovo, Milosevic had the gall to challenge Holbrooke with a small joke. "Are you Americans crazy enough to bomb us over...
...right, this may all be very old-fashioned, but these Lords have one quality that is inspiring and not at all modern: they are remarkably wise. Evidence? They will indeed vote for the abolition of all their privileges. This will be a very British, very stiff-upper-lip revolution. The Lords--who vote by crying "Content!" or "Not content!"--will feel profoundly discontented, and yet will say the opposite...