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Playwright Charles Fuller has paid his debt to Weaver handsomely by fleshing out the narrative with vivid character portraits and pungent humor. The strongest portrayal, by Douglas Turner Ward, is that of Sergeant Major Mingo Saunders. A 25-year veteran, Saunders has a passion for the regular army in the same way that a priest or an artist is called to his vocation. Ward sensitively conveys the intimate, though difficult burden of an NCO, who must understand the hurts and fears of his men, yet main tain a spit-and-polish discipline to steel each soldier for the fierce ordeal...
...reasons this version of Pirates is so good is a lack of egregious weaknesses among the leads. Patty Woo is suitably mournful as Frederic's former nurse, and John Corenswet, as the Sergeant of Police, sings the famous "A policeman's lot is not a happy one" with a straight-faced sincerity that makes his an appropriate foil to the zany police chorus. Of all the major performances, only Gregrey Gorden's Pirate King sounds a sour note. Gorden lacks the bellowing bass and comic belligerence to sustain his caricature of the English peer gone wrong. Perhaps some fiercer make...
...million-dollar misunderstanding may not be the only jolt for lottery winners. Many are soon besieged by relatives, charities and causes that want to share the presumed riches. One Air Force sergeant who won the Maryland lottery was asked to contribute to UFO research. Dominic Barisano, 63, won the jackpot in Massachusetts, only to give away so much to his four children, 13 grandchildren and eight brothers and sisters that he had no money to pay his income taxes. Says his wife Concetta, 61: "I'm a little sorry we won. One of my grandchildren told...
...spent for air tickets for his family and himself to fly from Washington to their Vail, Colo., vacation retreat for Christmas. Ford paid the money back into the Fifth District account by writing a check, dated Dec. 16, against his personal checking account with the House of Representatives' sergeant at arms, who provides free banking services for members. That account, however, was overdrawn by $1,763.87, so that the new check put him $2,930.87 into...
Michael Grossi, a sergeant in the Cambridge police department, yesterday agreed with Gorski, saying "As a tax- payer, I think it should go up to $1000 or $2000--why should a person come into a state for one sole purpose, a quality education, with a car? Why does he need a car for a quality education? And the situation couldn't get much worse anyway...