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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...singing I Love a Piano, and Garrison Keillor reciting All Alone. But then there were the lows: tinny amplification, an overpowering brass section, Bea Arthur's oomphless Hostess with the Mostes' and Leonard Bernstein's self- indulgent twelve-tone parody of A Russian Lullaby. Bernstein was also notable for ad hoc choreography. In seamless motion during the final bows, he embraced Shirley Maclaine, knelt before Marilyn Horne and lodged himself beside Frank Sinatra. The show is ended -- thank God, Berlin's melodies linger...
...polysyllables bristling, he goads his critics by making everything he does look easy or, even more rankling, look like fun. There is a price. His books sometimes show signs of having been written with one eye on an in-flight movie. His syndicated column occasionally follows the hasty recipe, ad hominem, mix and half-bake. Yet he possesses genuine literary gifts and first- strike verbal capabilities that are devastating in debate...
...what is Bok's solution? Not divestment, despite vociferous demands from students, faculty, and alumni. "Campus debate can clarify moral choices and improve the quality of official decisions," Bok says. Harvard has ad-boarded divestment protestors and tolerated South African officials on its campus. Where does Bok show the willingness to be moved by campus debate or moral choice...
...helm, Disney has not lost its obsessive attention to detail. Eisner aims to impress Parisians with a fluent opening-day speech at Euro Disneyland four years from now, so he has dusted off a college French textbook and hired a French-speaking limousine driver through a want ad. Walking through Disneyland one Sunday afternoon, he peered at the plastic | leaves on the Swiss Family Robinson tree house, noting that they periodically wear out and need to be replaced leaf by leaf at a cost of $500,000. As his family strolled the park, he and his eldest son Breck stooped...
...Dukakis' ad, which features an eerie close-up of Panama's General Noriega, the Governor asserts he wants "to see a real war, not a phony war, against drug and alcohol dependency. How can we tell our children to say no to drugs when we have an Administration that paid $200,000 a year to a drug- peddling dictator from Panama?" Gore's commercials, made by the veteran video warrior David Garth, emphasize that he may speak softly but he carries a big stick. Standing in front of an outdoor basketball court, Gore asserts, "We need a President...