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...political gathering held on the home turf of Uganda's dictatorial President Idi Amin Dada was bound to be a bit bizarre. The twelfth annual summit of the Organization of African Unity in Kampala last week easily lived up-or down-to expectations. "I will not embarrass you because of the confidence you have shown in me," "Big Daddy" promised as he became OAU chairman for the coming year. Nonetheless President Amin-who had generously promoted himself to the rank of field marshal for the occasion-proceeded to put on a divertissement that could not fail to embarrass delegates...
...demands of the final act that she does not fully rise. This is the rainy cemetery scene in which the dead articulate their thoughts (an idea Wilder got from the early cantos of Dante's Purgatorio) and Emily returns from the dead to relive her twelfth birthday (a device Wilder had already tried in his novel The Woman of Andros). Here Miss Mulgrew fails to evince the intensity and luminosity that better actresses have managed to summon...
...Twelfth Night. Every so often an actor retires a role the way a sports champion retires a trophy. He does not, of course, get permanent possession of the part, but he does get a lasting grip on playgoers' memories and critics' yardsticks. His successors must always suffer the ordeal of comparison. Even long-dead actors exert their possessive prerogatives. Praise a present Hamlet and some oldtimer will tell you that "Barrymore was the greatest." In Twelfth Night, Brian Bedford retkes the Malvolio...
When the field of 15 thoroughbreds broke from the starting gate Saturday afternoon, Jolley thought that his worst fears might be confirmed. Foolish Pleasure, with Panamanian Jockey Jacinto Vasquez at the reins, quickly dropped back to a distant twelfth, far from his usual position close to the pace. Bombay Duck, bred for speed, held the early lead, but as the stallions pounded down the backstretch, Avatar, a California mount, moved up to challenge. Foolish Pleasure, running on the rail, was still no better than seventh. "He looked as if he wasn't handling the track too well," Jolley explained...
...CHUL decided last week that freshmen who received their twelfth, eleventh and tenth choices respectively would receive priority in transferring to River Houses...