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...once massively narcissistic and entirely cowardly, Allen is everywhere, but almost never filmed alone in close-up. He's never shown in solitude (though often oh so wrenchingly alone.) It's his privilege to make fun of himself (so that by a sleight-of-hand he accepts the contempt of others, and yet is knowingly beyond it)--but also his privilege to make fun of other people (who don't have this...
Those hopes were extinguished almost immediately by the Clemson Tigers, whose roster includes such ominous-sounding names as Nnamdi Nwokocha (fr., Nigeria), Obed Ariri (sr., Nigeria), Godwin Ogbueze (sr., Nigeria) and Vincent Chika (fr., Nigeria...
...Almost every able-bodied grappler got his licks in Saturday as the Crimson matmen manhandled visiting squads from Wesleyan and Bridgewater State, 30-12 and 46-2, respectively, to earn their second and third wins of the young season...
...winter." In the fourth act, the play metamorphoses into a springtime world of romance and comedy: Redford's interpretation of this act is fit only for the Ziegfeld follies. He has included kick lines, scat numbers and Three Stooges slapstick falls. These numbers are endless and the act almost succeeds in ruining an otherwise brilliant production...
Leontes is one of those daunting Shakespearean leads that is almost impossible to pull off. His jealousy of his wife in the first three acts must grow until he loses the ability to think or function as king, or as human being. After his tyrannical madness, Leontes must reappear in the fifth act and be convincingly penitent and remorseful. He must also make credible the revalation scene in which the 'statue' of his wife, who for 16 years he has thought dead, comes to life from her pedestal...