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...quite wrong. In the dozen years Prospero and his daughter have lived on the island, Caliban has striven to better himself and has learned how to speak well. In the course of the play he learns valuable lessons and at the end asserts, "I'll be wise hereafter, and seek for grace...
...late Thurman Munson wishing to be traded from his world-champion ballclub to the Cleveland Indians, where he could live near his family. So terrible and inhumane is Cleveland to anyone but Munson, that Don Zimmer and Haywood Sullivan traded their most hated players--the Buffalo Heads (Rick Wise, Jim Willoughby, Ferguson Jenkins, and Bernie Carbo)--to the Indians, sparking one of the most imaginative and bizarre player protests of recent lore...
...that's the kind of place that Cleveland really is--take it from here. Don't forget that the Indians gave Boston the likes of Louis Tiant and Dennis Eckersley over the past few years. And don't forget, either, that Rick Wise usually beats the Red Sox when his new management summons him to pitch. So it's an even tradeoff, Cleveland for Boston, mystery for excellence, and anyway it turns out, the loser is always logic...
...annals of fictional or, for that matter, real-life adolescent goofiness, Dave's manner of asserting himself is singular, and also hilarious, especially as it bounces off Paul Dooley's expert exasperation as his dad and the wry, wise patience of Barbara Barrie's lovely performance as his mother. But the kid is not totally off the wall. It turns out that he is a talented, self-taught bicycle racer and that his fondness for things Italiano is really a reflection of his admiration for that nation's pre-eminence in the sport. Cycling becomes more...
...take over a congregation in wicked San Francisco. Shlepping his way overland from Philadelphia, he will be tricked by con men, be friended by a lonesome bank robber, roasted by the desert sun, frozen by mountain storms, captured by Indians, and from sea to shining sea, he will cause wise men to marvel at his unparalleled and in exhaustible nitwittedness. With Gene Wilder as the woodenheaded rabbi and Harrison Ford as the lovable bank robber, what could go wrong...