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Bearded, bare-chested, and languishing on an oyster-shell litter, Larry Carpenter is an acceptable Duke Orsino, more in love with the idea of love than with its object, Countess Olivia. Caroline McWilliams imbues the pretentiously mourning Olivia with graceful warmth and some delectable touches of sarcasm ("We will hear this divinity"). After her impetuous marriage to Sebastian, however, she neglects to wear the wedding ring referred to in the text...
Telltale signs are everywhere -from the unexpected persistence and thickness of pack ice in the waters around Iceland to the southward migration of a warmth-loving creature like the armadillo from the Midwest.Since the 1940s the mean global temperature has dropped about 2.7° F. Although that figure is at best an estimate, it is supported by other convincing data. When Climatologist George J. Kukla of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory and his wife Helena analyzed satellite weather data for the Northern Hemisphere, they found that the area of the ice and snow cover had suddenly increased...
Others have greeted Colson's transformation with cynicism and disbelief, both justified by his unsavory past. Colson, after all, in Nixon's own words, "would do anything" to help the President. "There was no warmth in the man," says John J. McCarthy, a Massachusetts conservative whom Colson helped in an unsuccessful bid for the Republican senatorial nomination in 1970. "He was a computerized being who weighed everything in terms of what it would mean for the White House." Adds a lawyer for one of the Watergate defendants, summing up the suspicions that Colson's dramatic guilty plea...
...Buchwald and Julie Andrews had to share equal billing at the American Booksellers Association convention lunch in Washington, D.C., with 9-Lives' finicky supersalesman Morris. The subject of an intimate biography by Chicago Journalist Mary Daniels, the big orange tiger basked in the warmth of the spotlights and the attention of some 1,000 booksellers who were listening to a tape of Morris. The details of his life are stark. Five years ago, Morris was rescued from imminent execution at the Hinsdale, Ill., Humane Society by Professional Animal Handler Bob Martwick. Morris earned Martwick's kennel over...
...Audiences and critics realized for the first time that they were in the presence of a diva of historical importance," wrote a New Yorker reviewer. "She tossed off all of Handel's difficult fioriture with exemplary intonation, faultless agility, and a warmth of tone that is seldom encountered in singers of her type...The production was a stunning...