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Last week at the Shaba Game Reserve in central Kenya, as dusk fell on her camp, Joy Adamson indulged herself in her customary early evening habit: she set off, alone, on a stroll away from the camp. This time she did not return to hear the nightly news, as she always did. A search party was formed. Soon it found her lifeless body about 100 yards from the camp on a nearby trail. She had been badly mauled across the chest and an arm "by great claws," a friend reported, "no doubt a lion...
...Hundreds of gold-plated watches, pens and lighters kept in a storeroom. Executives would stroll by and help themselves to handfuls...
...next, moving down the line until it drops off, lost in the gutter. Across from the Royale Theater, where a golden marquee has promoted Grease for seven years, the drunk stops to shuffle through a mesh trash can. He finds nothing but a wadded Times, straightens to resume his stroll and turns up Eighth Avenue...
...might want to make an evening of it--dinner at the Currier House Dining Hall, a stroll around the Quad or (if it's chilly) Hilles, and then a few hours of excellent theater. Better yet, make two evenings of it because the three parts of The Norman Conquests are spread over two nights. "Table Manners" and "Living Together" are a double bill Wednesday nights, with "Living Together" and "Round and Round the Garden" on Thursday, and "Round and Round the Garden and "Table Manners" on Friday...
...wear suits though they both labor in a warehouse. Why? Tom's makeup is too heavy, almost feminine. A subtle grittiness is missing. Also, Tom gives his narrator speeches front and center stage, not separate enough, not isolated enough. A perch on the fire escape/balcony, even a stroll nearer the audience would have been a nice touch. The lighting was properly dim, but the frequent blackouts for scene changes were too stark, too sudden, t.v.-like, often disturbing the sense of a flow of dream images. Finally, Williams' script calls for fiddle music at the beginning...