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...this were a perfect world, Martin Short would have been a big Broadway star long before now. On TV he was the only performer who managed to make the jump between the two premier satirical sketch shows of the '70s and early '80s, SCTV and Saturday Night Live,, and he made the usual transition to less-inspired film roles. But it wasn't until he starred on Broadway in 1993's The Goodbye Girl, an underrated musical with Marvin Hamlisch's best post-Chorus Line score, that he showed how effortlessly his lithe, smallish body could take over a Broadway...
Those of us on the right have been losing ground since the 1970s and '80s. Can we ultimately win? I think you would need a reconversion of the country to a traditionalist, Christian point of view--and I don't see that coming...
Here's a test of celebrity status: Do people show up to watch you sweep a street? BOY GEORGE, the '80s pop icon, was mobbed last week when he performed community service in New York City--his sentence for lying to police about a phony break-in (a cocaine-possession charge was dropped). At first, George balked, but he seemed to get into it during his five days behind the broom and even floated the idea of a benefit for the city's street cleaners. And, yes, people did turn out to see the Karma Chameleon at work...
...Restoring the link between the farm and the table is an ambition shared by a growing number of restaurants. That?s also not new: it was the driving idea behind the fresh-above-all restaurants that launched the U.S. food revolution in the 1970s and ?80s. But most of those pioneering restaurants - led by chef Alice Waters? Chez Panisse - were in California, where anything can grow and where it would be silly not to supply a restaurant from a nearby farm...
There were good reasons for the theory's appeal when it first emerged in the late 1970s and early '80s. At the time, physicists found themselves facing a crisis: the two most important ideas of 20th century physics, relativity and quantum theory, were known to be fundamentally incompatible. Quantum theory describes the universe as intrinsically discontinuous: energy, for example, can come in bits just so small, but no smaller. Relativity treats time and space and gravity as a smooth, unbroken continuum. Each theory has its purposes, and they usually don't overlap. But when dealing with very large masses...