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...Well-known Cambridge storyteller Brother Blue, a great choice to play narrator John Gower, appeals well at first. Yet each time he comes on stage he affects the same position, demeanor, voice and gestures until his idiosyncrasies become grating and tiresome. Pericles, played by Ben Halley Jr. mimics a stiff operatic James Earl Jones, a stunning figure with fine diction, but his manner is too rigidly classical and neither dramatic nor human. Sandra Shipley as Thaisa plays her role with quiet understanding and control. With only a few lines, she surmounts Pericles as the family's core. Jeannie Affelder...
...comparison to these stiff prices, Harvard tickets seem fairly easy to come by Gordon M. Page, director of ticket sales, said this has not always been the case...
...been done by the Japanese in response to the Reagan Administration prodding. True, Nakasone has pledged that his country will be an "unsinkable aircraft carrier" for the U.S., and that he will push for defense increases. But his program is already lagging. Future resistance is likely to be stiff. Japanese schools still teach the evils of militancy, and of course the older generation clearly remember the horrors...
...week by two pairs of leaders in the railroad and steel industries have a good chance of winning Washington's approval. With Smokestack America in a period of decline and retrenchment, the Reagan Administration tends to look favorably on consolidations that could make weak companies stronger. In addition, stiff competition from abroad has made the antitrust laws increasingly irrelevant for many important industries...
...page, mimeographed tip sheet for 450. An alert editor at Penguin saw a copy and persuaded the prodigy to turn pro. The 112-page result contains three dozen "tricks" for solving the cube (using logic rather than math), as well as a chapter on "Cube Maintenance" (to loosen a stiff cube, "put a blob of Vaseline on the mechanism"). With 250,000 copies of the cubist's book in print, a Penguin executive marvels: "It's the biggest, runaway, immediate success we have had since we published Lady Chatterley's Lover in paperback...