Word: valiant
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Mercutio, who bears the weight of the play upon his shoulders, is played by John Parker. He makes a valiant try, perhaps too valiant, for most of his energy seems undirected and wasted. And something must be done about his braying, villainous laugh. I know that rough edges are inevitable in a production cast almost entirely from one House but it is nonetheless a pity that one of them had to be Benvolio (Donald Scharfe). His announcement of Mercutio's death, one of the play's most poignant moments, he turns into a moment of near comedy. "Mercutio is dead...
Locked in a virtual Russian bear hug by geography and two valiant but lost wars, the Finns have kept a delicate independence by what President Urho Kaleva Kekkonen, 60, has called the ability "to live on fine distinctions." Last week, in one of the Finns' finest distinctions yet, representatives of Western Europe's economic Outer Seven gathered in Helsinki's Smolna Palace to sign a treaty with Finland creating the Finland Association-a legal fiction that enables Finland to be a part of the European Free Trade Area (EFTA) and share in the benefits of its lower...
Winston Churchill-The Valiant Years (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). Chapter 17, "The Die Is Cast": final preparations for Dday...
Winston Churchill-The Valiant Years (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). No. 16 in this splendid chronology of World...
Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). The Prime Minister moves to stabilize wartime relations with India in "Be Sure...