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...same small studio. The props reconstruct a dream world--often surrealistic--and the actors walk amidst the mannequins in front of slide projections of Hitler's Obersalzburg mansion, his party rallies, old photographs. There are four parts, 22 chapters, and significant hunks of the work deliberately bore, like a condescending challenge, 'Are you good enough to keep up with us?' In one such scene, an actor sets a picnic table in front of a slide projection of trees and ferns, eats lunch and prattles about his relationship to Hitler as Obersalzburg servant. It's quite dull. Even... yes, banal...
...plan was given the overall name of GEMSTONE, and although most components bore the names of a precious or semiprecious stone, some were named for minerals. I started with operation DIAMOND...
...Harvard baseball team brought the national pastime back to Cambridge yesterday for its home opener, and engaged in a contest that bore little resemblance to traditional definitions of the game. This cold, ugly afternoon--and Boston College--made the Crimson losers, 1-0, before a dedicated and minute crowd at Soldiers Field...
...throwing his new neighbors out, and they keep coming back. Suddenly, nothing in his life works the way it should. He phones some old friends to seek help in at least getting Harry and Ramona out of his house. "I don't want to, "replies one. "It would bore me, and I never do anything boring if I can help it." A servile old auto mechanic whom Earl calls for service starts insulting him. It occurs to Earl that "the more he sought aid, the more scores he had to settle. He was some how antagonizing the entire world...
...race, postponed from 10:40 a.m. until 6:30 p.m. because of a whipping wind which rendered the Charles turbulent, bore out the oarswomen's lofty expectations...