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...playing her lapdog/playboy husband Hector, is as stiff and starched as his shirt. The only time we can understand why squads of women supposedly fall in love with him occurs in a moment when he is leaping about alone on stage and snatches up an imaginary rapier in solitary swordplay, levelling it against a non-existent...
...that the Holy Grail was really in Japan? American theater artist Robert Wilson seems to think so. For the Zurich Opera, Wilson has conjured up a LOHENGRIN that is far removed from Wagner's realm of Brabant. The composer's scenario is full of feudal warfare and knightly swordplay. But Wilson, whose career has included such mesmerizing efforts as Einstein on the Beach and the CIVIL warS, avoids conventional stage action, particularly the use of arms and hands. So this is a slo-mo Lohengrin with formalized gestures that recall tai chi. In place of the banks of the River...
Cyrano de Bergerac Moonlit idealism and moonstruck love, dashing swordplay and flashing wordplay, bold intelligence and bustling spectacle . . . And the winner is -- by more than a nose -- Gerard Depardieu...
Even on such a historic day, the session had its characteristic verbal swordplay. Labour M.P. Greville Janner stood and thanked Thatcher for "many personal kindnesses." Then, voice rising, he ticked off a list of miseries and inquired if she was aware that she was leaving the country "in such a shambles." Murmurs of approval from the Labour benches. Thatcher quickly stood up and tartly replied to the Right Honourable Janner, "He can speak to any brief, and I don't believe he believes a word of it." Roars of delight from the Tory side...
Circling each other warily, always on the lookout for decisive openings, Time Inc. and Paramount Communications engaged in a fresh round of legal and financial swordplay last week. No clear winner emerged in the epic duel, but the thrusts and parries offered Wall Street speculators plenty of titillation -- and uncertainty. Time's board started off by rejecting Paramount's sweetened takeover bid, in which the company raised its offer for Time from $175 to $200 a share, or a total of more than $12 billion. The Time directors reiterated their plan to go ahead with an acquisition of Warner Communications...