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...year war between the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News has been a classic Wild West affair in Hearstian yellow, stretching from penny-a-day subscription offers in the last decade back to a 1907 streetfight between the papers' editors. Now the bean-counters at the papers have called a truce, entering into a joint operating agreement (JOA) that will merge the Post's and News' circulation and advertising departments into a single entity. And though the agreement keeps the two editorial departments technically distinct, TIME Denver bureau chief Richard Woodbury says it looks like Denver is not long...
...night-time revel following Othello's arrival at Cyprus. A party of drunken soldiers and whores idle and sprawl with calculated precision to Iago's song-leading, and when Roderigo pursues an intoxicated Cassio (Michael Gurdy) onstage for some extravagant swordplay, the scene bursts into a Shakespearean streetfight. Hamlin's careful blocking makes every drunken soldier's drunken move part of one grand theatrical effect--and everything meshes neatly behind Cassio's supremely pathetic disclaimers of intoxication. Half the tension of the scene is in the swish of swords and the calculated pounding of boots. Shakespeare played to the limit...
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