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Dogg's Hamlet opens with Abel, played by Fouad Onbargi, and Baker, played by Jeffrey Wise, throwing a football and yelling "Brick!" at each other. The boys' teacher Dogg, played by Andrew Watson, soon appears, calling them to order, and the audience hears its first conversation in Dogg. The dialogue is rendered intelligible only by the actors' movements, but eventually bits and pieces of the language are made clear with the help of Easy, a mover played by Amos Gelb, who speaks normal English...

Author: By M. ELISABETH Bentel, | Title: Clever Language Games | 11/14/1985 | See Source »

...depended upon to swear that they would not allow Communism to take over the republic. There is no limit to the number, of course, of the members of the ruling party who aspire to the presidency. Many of them are highly qualified. I think it is a wise decision for the leadership not to speak of this kind of succession unless and until we are through with the 1986 and 1987 elections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Interview with Ferdinand Marcos | 11/11/1985 | See Source »

...Queen said she would like to avoid "an Edward VII situation," referring to her great-grandfather, who had spent much of his life ogling ballerinas and sipping champagne before Queen Victoria's death belatedly brought him to the throne at the age of 59. "It might be wise," said the Queen, according to her biographer Robert Lacey, "to abdicate at a time when Charles could do better." Said Philip jokingly: "You might be right. The doctors will keep you alive so long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Born to Be King - But When? | 11/11/1985 | See Source »

...pleasurable nostalgia for a past that none of its audience has had. Its opening nights should be long, socially frantic and attended by as many titled lenders and assorted Chinless Wonders as can be flown across the Atlantic. Royalty should be present, enabling museum officials to fall, Bernini-wise, into swooning postures of gratification, one eye on the Princess of Wales and the other fixed on the box office. In short, it might not be unlike "The Treasure Houses of Britain: Five Hundred Years of Private Patronage and Art Collecting," which opened at the National Gallery of Art in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Brideshead Redecorated | 11/11/1985 | See Source »

...line, located in an old house so tastefully redone that a critic of the fast development, John McGivaren, says of it, "If one has to have a McDonald's in one's neighborhood, this is probably the best one. They've done a magnificent job appearance-wise." His wife Barbara doesn't mind the look of the place either. However, the McDonald's is just down the hill from their old and handsome house, and she says, "When the wind is right, I can smell the grease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Maine: the Offspring of L.L. Bean | 11/11/1985 | See Source »

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