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...belonged to the Shah himself, looks as if it would have crumbled to dust if he had ever knelt on it. Though they are lethal weapons, his damascened swords and daggers are inlaid with golden flowers and lines of flowing script. The astrolabe looks more like an extravagantly ingenious toy than a working navigation instrument. Even the coins of Isfahan look too pretty to spend...
...this production a special bow should go to Director Stephen Porter, who keeps the pace as antic as a berserk windup toy. Should you care to get intoxicated on laughter, Chemin de Per is a madcap nightcap of a show. T.E.K
...MARY TOY...
...little flyer," declared Teamster Secretary-Treasurer Murray W. ("Dusty") Miller. Over the years, the Teamsters have mysteriously lost millions of dollars in similar projects that turned out to be astonishingly poor business ventures for such a sophisticated union. Recently, a $7,000,000 Teamster loan to a New Mexican toy manufacturer was lost when the company went out of business. A similar fate has befallen Teamster loans to a Las Vegas ice-skating rink, to a hotel in Reno, to a truck stop in Dearborn, Mich., to a real estate development in the Santa Monica mountains in California...
More profound alterations can be seen in The Frog King, known popularly as The Princess and the Golden Ball. It is the tale of the repulsive frog who retrieves the little lady's toy from a pond on condition that she take him back to the palace to share her plate and bed. In many modern versions, the standoffish princess eventually kisses the frog, who instantly becomes a handsome, marriageable prince. In the original, the brat smashes the frog against a wall, and the bridegroom springs magically from the breakage. This is obviously not a sentimental story with...