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Ronald Coralian, who is surely one of the College's best actors, gives a relentlessly taut performance as Rubashov, doomed. He plays with conviction and never moves away from the heart of a long and great part. Sharon Connolley, the bourgeois temptation who is a symbol of the humanity that he finds foreign to the Party, succeeds in conveying simplicity in a very complex world; she has a presence. William Noble, in the role of 402 who occupies the cell next to Rubashov, plays with primitive charm and excitement. Alfred Bakhash, another prisoner, presents a remarkable caricature in the first...
...Alcatraz. To come full circle, Backus first had to get out of taut Kentucky Military Institute outside Louisville -"an Alcatraz with tuition," where his best pal was "Cadet Slob" Victor Mature. "I predict you'll wind up in the gutter," said the commandant...
...Cornerstones. Cygnets House is the creation of tiny, taut Mrs. Rennie O'Mahony, who founded it after World War II as a patriotic (and profitable) alternative to packing British subdebs off to Paris to learn the graces. Ever since, socialites have installed their daughters at Mrs. O'Mahony's small Queen's Gate town house, whose front hall contains a collection of white china swans "to remind the girls of what they are expected to become." Their guiding light: "That our daughters may be as cornerstones, polished after the similitude of a palace" (Psalms...
...other state: 968 with total deposits of $10.4 billion, combined resources of $11.6 billion. Texas bankers succeed by fighting for business like warring supermarket operators on a Saturday afternoon -while also wearing Homburg hats and speaking in muted tones. The man who best combines such Texas talents is taut, wiry, fiercely competitive Fred F. Florence, 67, head of Dallas' Republic National Bank, who for years has been locked in an epic duel with Dallas' First National Bank. The prize: the title of No. 1 bank in Texas...
...them all, making brief small talk in six languages, handing out holy medals, even exchanging his white silk skull cap with some visitor who had brought one for the purpose. The New York Times's late Anne O'Hare McCormick described him thus: "He is straight, strong, taut as a watch spring, thin as a young tree, but tranquil and tranquilizing -a Gothic figure whose vestments fall about him in Gothic folds, whose long hands are raised in Gothic gestures, both stiff and graceful...