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...cadaver should ever endure what Sellars does to the Dogberry/Verges scenes--his chopping reduces them from a major element of the play's structure to mere comic relief. It's tempting to look at them that way, of course, and in the uncut script their scenes do go on forever. But as with all of Shakespeare's plot problems that tempt foolhardy directors to cut and re-order, this one had a point...
...tune in a weekly program of panel discussions and entertainment produced by and for senior citizens, sometimes featuring performers in their 80s. And all over the country, movie buffs can see at home such recent films as High Anxiety and Invasion of the Body Snatchers, presented on the tube uncut and uninterrupted by commercials...
...words to have such an actor and actress in lead roles suggests a failure in direction as well. Valerie Lester's approach to the play is impeccably traditional: not necessarily a flaw, but once more emphasizing the language which is beyond the performers. Lester's pacing of the mostly uncut script is smooth and well-jointed, and a few nice touches--like a drum beat behind the duel scene--relive the general disarray a bit. Her failure lies in the casting of the show, not in the details of its direction...
...radio. The combines, like tanks on night maneuvers, head west, following Venus, which is low and bright in the sky. "We've got it!" Gary Coleman, driver of the lead combine yells back. He slows his machine, turns and lowers the cutting head into a rich wave of uncut field...
...More important, speculators round the world have concluded that diamonds are a good hedge against inflation, currency weakness and political uncertainty. In the diamond centers of Antwerp, New York City, Bombay and especially Tel Aviv, industry middlemen have been paying price premiums up to 100% to buy and hoard uncut stones. Banks have been buying diamonds for customers' portfolios, instead of stocks. "Some people have bought kilos' worth of diamonds," says Antwerp Diamond Cutter Sylvain Zucker. Disgusted by the speculation, New York's Tiffany & Co. ran a newspaper ad in March telling customers: "Diamonds are too high...