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...Gabor in a series of tales. John Smith's problem is different but the results are the same; in "The Little Peasant," Smith plays a tough-talking, thumb-sticking cowboy; unfortunately, he carries the role with him as Cocky-Locky in "Henny Penny" or the count in "The Master Thief...
...Vance plays animals effectively: as the ass in "The Bremen Town Musicians," he carries you down the road with him and as the flounder in "The Fisherman and His Wife" he slithers wonderfully, bellowing his anger. If Vance's performance is strained in both "Henny Penny" and "The Master Thief," his miming is marvelous and his body movements lithe. Samuels and Zito bring delightful innocence to roles that demand naivete. Samuels performs best in the show's opening sketch, "The Little Peasant" and Zito demonstrates considerable skill in "The Fisherman...
Enter Fonda in designer boots and jeans, caught in the TV newswoman syndrome for the second time in a year. She goes after the horse thief hoping for an obnoxiously good story; she winds up with the story and a few cozy nights with Redford under the Utah stars to boot...
...cords this winter (up from 300,000 last year), the heating oil saved amounts to only 60 million gal., about a third of the state's annual consumption in recent years. In the meantime, new problems are cropping up. Wood thefts are on the rise: one well-equipped thief got away with a haul of 35 cords from a lumberyard in northern New Hampshire. And there are more and more warnings of pollution from wood smoke. Wood has little sulfur, compared to coal, and burning it adds nothing to the atmosphere's carbon dioxide sum. But participates from inefficient burners...
Bernie De Koven, 38, is the game designer for Ideal Toys, makers of last year's big-selling Electronic Detective-similar to Stop Thief, this year's Parker Bros, entry. His office is cluttered-a creative mulch of dolls' heads, car wheels, batteries, record-player motors, computer entrails, synthesizers and oscilloscopes-but he knows where the action is. "Try an experiment," says De Koven. "Bring in 30 of your most beautiful mechanical games and two cruddy electronic games to a group of kids, and see what happens...