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...directed, Anne Strassner as Beatriz sometimes slips into reciting when acting poetry. Strassner is a Beatriz without innocence, more a Coppelia than a New Eve with her shoulders drooping and her tinge of petulance. She is as at her best at the end as she gulps from a silver vial that is supposed to redeem her poisonous blood--even though it seems to contradict her intent in the preceding speech...
...lights. Then again, it is appropriate to use flagrantly artificial plants for the garden of a supreme artificer. In addition, the tree which Beatriz calls her brother is made to resemble a stick figure of a man with his head at a tilt. Later, behind Beatriz drinking from the vial, the tree looms like a crucifix. The lighting (designed by James Meyer) creates an illusion of transparency as the Messenger blends in and out of patches of light. Although the set (designed by Elizabeth Clark) allows Juan to fall into Rappaccini's garden from his garret, it also places...
...Rhodesia. When his party landed in Salisbury, it was ignored by Rhodesian Foreign Affairs Minister Pieter K. van der Byl, who also happened to be at the airport. In the capital, the attitude of whites toward the visitors was equally hostile. After police arrested a man for carrying a vial of acid, he boasted that he had planned to toss it into Richard's face...
...customers' wallets than for stealing the show. Offstage they drink out of the finger bowls at posh restaurants, swat each other with their hats a la Laurel and Hardy and cause everything they touch to blow up in their faces, from a bottle of champagne to a vial of nitroglycerin. "They're not oafs," someone says of them. "They would require practice to become oafs...
Other operatives then shipped the drug in vials to regional distributors, such as health-food shops, or mailed it directly to doctors and cancer victims. Though Laetrile, which is an extract from apricot pits, costs less than a dollar a vial to manufacture, U.S. patients paid as much as $50 for three daily injections...