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There he stood, looking like King Hal at Agincourt, a slim figure in gold staring at the enemy over the backs of his crouching linemen. "Haaaay, set! Hup-ah-hup-ah-hup-ah . . ." Back snapped the ball, and the crowd sucked in its breath. What would he do? Now he...
Aside from Alfred's exultant leap over the railing Friday night, and Eubolus' unfortunate, though hilarious, fall off the stage Saturday, this production allowed itself only one major piece of stage drama. In the fourth act, the old crippled woman Mainas (expertly voiced by Joan Tolentino) draws the scene of...
The Iranian minister stood at bay, staring down the muzzle of a gas pistol. The cold-eyed German behind the gun worked quickly and methodically. A spy caught in the act? A would-be assassin? No. All Hermann Reissmeier wanted was to smash a dozen windowpanes and thus "collect" an...
Kelen's eye was so sure that he often picked men out of a crowd before history did. In 1921, from a swarm of boisterous brown-shirted men in Munich, he sketched one whose face was all fascinating conflict. "Contrasts of weakness and strength were dramatic," Kelen wrote. "The...
Even the war helped Bill Pereira along. He became a civilian camouflage expert for the Army, and again and again he flew up and down the coast from Canada to Mexico. "I got a view then of the tragedies of helter-skelter planning, of the impossible traffic, the sprawling disorganization...