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...deeply entrenched Mafia. The new high commissioner is empowered to tap telephones of suspected gangsters and to look into bank records to trace transfers of capital. Another new statute allows interrogation of witnesses behind closed doors, a provision calculated to break Sicily's code of omertà, a vow of silence by those who have witnessed crimes...
...Coop management for now has seemingly beaten back an attempt to get organized labor into the Coop. But union officials vow to continue the flight in behind-the-scenes ways, and they hope to one day get an election they...
...with clowns and cavortings, he leaves the Ex dark for at least ten minutes, forcing the audience to concentrate as four disembodied voices exhaustively lay out the play's premise. The King of Navarre (Alex Pearson) has persuaded his three friends. Dumanine, Longaville, and Berowne, to join in a vow to study for three years-fasting, rarely sleeping, and forswearing the company of women. They all swear, despite misgivings, quite forgetting that the Princess of France is arriving that day on an embassy from her father, bringing three ladies...
Once you have this straight, the rest of the plot is traditional. The four lords fall for the four ladies. attempt to dissemble, then to break their vows, and are eventually taught by the ladies to sue for favor honestly, without resorting to trivial games. The transition to reality and perhaps maturity is completed by the unexpected news of the Princess' father's death, and all eight principals soberly vow faith and various types of atonement, as if ceremoniously renouncing the comic-traditional world that has held them in thrall...
...President has a choice: end registration and call off the futile hunt for non-complaints, or continue along a path destined to end in confusion, inequity and resentment. It's too bad he didn't follow up on his own vow and kill the problem cleanly as soon as he took office...