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...still natural--at times this production oozes Woodstock--but Prince has trampled on some of the stories, adding characterizations that some of his actors can't handle and moving back and forth from the narrate-your-own-action to insert-a-narrator form. Story Theatre asks the audience to suspend itself for a couple of hours and asks a small group of talented actors to make eight different characters in ten different tales believable. If it looks simple to do this show right, it's not, and Prince's style makes it even harder for any troupe to carry...
...actors can do little to salvage the intended meanings and morals. Confusion reigns at the end of "Henny Penny," as the cast sings and rocks to the Vietnam ballad "What are We Fighting For" while Foxy-Loxy ships the birds off to who knows where. It's easy to suspend cynicism and read between the still-fresh lines of the simple tales, but ten years later, Story Theatre's sociological comments seem sadly out of date...
...drugs, taken in conjunction, could have interacted with each other and produced a fatal synergistic effect. And there is no doubt that, whatever his other problems, there was no medical justification for the voracious way Presley took drugs. At week's end, the Tennessee board voted unanimously to suspend Dr. Nick's license for three months-but only after praising him as a valuable member of the medical profession...
Only Britain's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher proved truly resolute. She announced that Britain would stop supplying the Soviets with high technology, would refuse to negotiate new trade agreements with them and would suspend visits by Soviet officials, including Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. In private she scoffed at the continental allies as "bloody wets," meaning, roughly, drips...
...Cardinals who govern the doctrinal congregation, then to Pope John Paul. A judgment will be months in coming. The Vatican could merely issue a formal warning if it finds "false teachings." It could also bar Schillebeeckx from teaching at any Catholic university or ask the Dominican order to suspend him from priestly functions, as happened to France's Jacques Pohier earlier this year for doubting the Resurrection of Christ, among other things...