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...play. It has no fantastic characters, like the playing-card Queen of Alice in Wonderland; it doesn't move with the slapstick speed of Punch and Judy. On the contrary, Gogol's characters, the bourgeois of 19th century Russia, are fairly ordinary people; the humor of inept matchmaking and awkward courtship is less visual than verbal. Nevertheless the show--performed Monday at Children's Hospital and weekends at Quincy House--speaks to the children in the audience. By simplifying the plot and exaggerating its comic elements. Scott Weiner's production gives The Marriage juvenile appeal, while offering an enjoyable show...
...always are on these royal progresses, in walking about, smiling, shaking hands (Elizabeth offers only a demure three fingers) and murmuring pleasantries to all. As Queen of Jamaica, she also addressed Parliament. The speech, composed by Foreign Office gnomes, was hardly great oratory, but it was met with an awkward silence only be cause the assembled Members thought it might be bad form to applaud...
...dramas, the depictions of real events often seem staged, while the author's inventions seem real. In The Winds of War, the reverse is true. The historical scenes, some of them scrupulously copied from old newsreels, are vivid and acute, while the fictional scenes sometimes look stiff and awkward. But those moments pass and the story takes over, building up momentum as it approaches its tragic conclusion, hour after hour after hour. Meanwhile, ABC hopes for a happier ending of its own. Having taken its gamble, the network must wait for the results, day after day after...
...breakdown in El Salvador's military chain of command comes at an awkward moment for the Reagan Administration. The President has until Jan. 23 to submit his semiannual certification to Congress that El Salvador's government is making progress on human rights and is carrying out land reform. Without the statement, the President must immediately cut off all military assistance. State Department officials described the Ochoa-Garcia duel as "absolutely not germane" to the certification, and said last week that the Administration would once again rule in El Salvador's favor. Washington officials noted with satisfaction that...
...Ewing of Georgetown locked planes and angles for the first time, Celtics General Manager Red Auerbach observed, "These young guys actually love being tall." He sounded amazed. "I love it now," says Walton. "It took me a while to get used to standing out in the crowd, looking awkward, feeling uncomfortable. But I've grown into it." He has grown out of other things, condemning the Government, for instance, and has even developed some affection for meat. "I've matured a lot." This is his soft explanation for many changes. "There are still things...