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EVEN CONSIDERING it's Gilbert & Sullivan, almost everything about Ruddigore is ridiculous. Some of the most preposterous little touches slip by almost unnoticed--the Gilbert & Sullivan Players' excellent production gives them just the right sense of serene, oblivious seriousness--like the hint of a flute obligato at the first entrance of an almost entirely irrelevant character called Mad Margaret, or the "Alas, poor ghost" with which the hero, for no reason in particular, greets his spectral uncle...
...just about everything else a modern economy needs. Nearly 2 million people have violated restrictions against emigration to find jobs in other countries or to escape the mandatory four-year tour in the army-which usually included service in Africa. In the north, where it is easiest to slip over the border to Spain, whole villages look as if they had been visited by the bubonic plague, with almost all their able-bodied men working in the factories of France and West Germany...
...Canadians had expected, and the main issue quickly became whether the contracts would cover three years or five-for the same amount of money. "How about four years?" Bassett asked after several hours of debate. Keating stuck to three. "I had the sick feeling it was about to slip away," he recalls. Bassett studied the papers again and then looked up. "Ed," he said, "you've got a deal...
...sentence in 1967, he launched into a diatribe, saying that Clark was just a "puppet" of Kennedy (who was then a Senator from New York). Hoffa cited the Congressional Record, a couple of books and the reporter's common sense to try to bury what had been a small slip, but, importantly, a slip related to Bobby Kennedy: as if catching the mistake was somehow an attack on himself as a person...
...Harvard's turn in the top of the 12th and the Crimson did not let the opportunity slip by. Thomas delivered the game-winning hit, as he knocked in Dan Williams from second with a single...