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...this weren't enough, Tolins will portray Salieri in a December production of Amadeus. This is a sort of dream role for him, as he already used it in high school to garner top honors from the National Catholic Forensics League. Salieri is another in a long series of bizarre character roles--from Voltaire in Candide to Sultan Battery in last year's Pudding extravaganza--that Tolins has exploited throughout his Harvard acting career...
...this even though a host of Mr. Joel's lifelong friends testified, under oath, either that Mr. Joel Manning was perfectly sane or at least, as one of his oldest and most trusted friends phrased it, 'as sane as he had ever been.' " Taylor has always been able to portray the dignity in his characters, particularly when they are in the act of making fools of themselves. It may be ludicrous for a grown man still to mourn a childhood move from one Tennessee city to another, but the author's art evokes sympathy along with laughter...
...last effort to portray Kennedy as unworthyof his name, he repeated Roosevelt's early mistakeof levelling an ill-founded and belligerentaccusation, hoping the candidate would reactunsuitably. He chose a television debate toconfront Kennedy with the fact that a subsidiaryof his Citizens Energy Corporation had limitedfinancial relations with three Libyan banks...
...largest winery in the world, is expected to take over the No. 1 position this year with its heavily advertised Bartles & Jaymes citrus cooler. Customers have been lured by its homespun TV ads, in which laconic Non-Actors Dave Rufkahr, an Oregon farmer, and Richard Maugg, a California contractor, portray the fictional characters of Frank Bartles and Ed Jaymes...
...vote recommending Rehnquist's elevation came as Republicans easily beat back an attempt by liberal Democrats to portray him as too extreme to lead the U.S. court system...