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...industry for the past year has generally been sagging, Noxell has been smiling like one of its prettiest models. Its Cover Girl makeup is among the hottest major lines of cosmetics in the U.S., and a third generation of customers is now snapping up little blue jars of Noxzema facial cream, which first went on the market nearly 70 years ago. Last year sales for the company, based in Cockeysville, Md., climbed 12% to $262 million, and profits totaled $18.5 million. From 1978 through 1982, Noxell's earnings grew 15% annually. Now Noxell is going to see whether success...
...armature of things which are quite clearly to be seen in 18th-century paintings--the way gentlemen stood with their toes turned out, the way people's hands--rested lightly on the bosom." Reportedly, he worked unusually long and hard with his troupe to supply the stances, the facial expressions, the ties that would keep Sheridan's rococo dialogue from flagging. The results are impressive...
...stage is spare--swathed in a smoothing blue gauze--forcing the actors' charisma to sustain the show. Rosencrantz (Jim Torres) and Guildenstern (Steve Kelner) meet this demand; with exaggerated facial expressions and wild gestures, their compressed energy matches Stoppard's verbal swashbuckling, his inevitable bons mots...
...silly plot follows the courtroom encounter of a woman (Sarah Downs) trying to prosecute her chicken-hearted ex-fiance (William Monnen) for breaking off their engagement. Particularly delightful is Dennis Crowley as the bespectacled judge who falls helplessly in love with Angelina, the plaintiff. Crowley's sparkling voice and facial expressions ripple throughout the stage, especially excelling in his solo about why he became a judge...
...seafarer Dick Deadeye play magnificently. Knowles, last seen as Figaro in the Lowell House Opera production of The Marriage of Figaro, gives a more distinguished performance this time: His production is impeccable and his stage presence especially his bulging eyes--is extraordinary, Bierko's loud, clear baritone, his bizarre facial contortions, and his dangling motions convey, in the best deadpan performance of the evening, Deadeye's extraordinary despicability and grossness...