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...tug of war between Henry and Falstaff, or order and disorder, for the allegiance of Hal is the dominating theme of the first two Henrys. But what neither man knows is that the outcome has been foreordained: Hal, the consummate politician, is only pretending to be bad so that when it is time to be good he will seem all the better. "Yet will I imitate the sun," he says, "who may be more wonder'd at, by breaking through the foul and ugly mists of vapors that did seem to strangle him." Fortunately Shakespeare gives Hal a heart...
Though she allows her tale to veer toward farce, Tyler always checks it in time with the tug of an emotion, a twitch of regret. Morgan's responses are outrageous, but his stimuli are natural. He reminds Bonny of how he used to fear that their baby girls would die: " 'Relax,' you'd say. Remember? But now look: it's as if they died after all. Those funny little roly-poly toddlers, Amy in her Oshkosh overalls-they're dead, aren't they?" His bitter conclusion: "They've dumped their hamsters...
American hopes of isolating the self-described "students" from the political leadership may have been unexpectedly advanced by a week-long tug of war over U.S. Chargé d'Affaires L. Bruce Laingen, who has been held at the Foreign Ministry since the embassy takeover. Two weeks ago, the militants had imperiously demanded that Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh send Laingen to the embassy for questioning about alleged "documents of espionage...
Redford manages to tug the movie to a level that makes it worth seeing. In his first role since All the President's Men, he proves himself still capable of the twinkly eye and boyish, ultra-bright smile. The man can act. Except for several lapses in his Westernese dialect, he shows he can play more than Newman's or Hoffman's sidekick...
Wisconsin's legislators will consider a special bill next month that would promote conservation and alternate energy systems. In New York, the legislators and Governor Hugh Carey have been involved in a tug of war over heating assistance funding. "We are not ready for winter and never will be," says Charles Raymond, who in November left his 18-month post as manager of the most dilapidated structures in New York City, the 4,100 apartment houses run by city hall because owners were forced to abandon them for nonpayment of real estate taxes. Raymond's crews have partly weatherized every...