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...first Lennon was resistant to Owen's skills. "You're just a professional Liverpudlian," sniped the cynical Beatle. "Better than being an amateur one," was Owen's smart-aleck response. Lennon was sold in that moment...
...renovators go, no one quite measures up to Harry Truman. He rebuilt the White House, gutting it and replacing ancient timbers with steel and concrete. To much public displeasure, he added a balcony off the private quarters on the third floor. Like many Presidents, Truman considered himself an amateur architect and used to inspect the construction progress, leading the likes of freshman Congressman Gerald Ford through the building chaos, explaining history and design with his usual irreverence. Truman also dispensed bits and pieces of the old White House to political cronies like Speaker Sam Rayburn, whose Bonham, Texas, library still...
...plain black pants and t-shirts and the music of Frederic Chopin. The moves seemed so natural, seemed to fit the music so well, that I wondered why I hadn't seen those exact moves in my mind every time I heard that music before. Sometimes the movements appeared amateur, like someone thrashing around in his room with windows and doors shut against prying eyes. But there is no denying their skill, as they leapt and spun across the stage. The choreography was a study in patterns, almost mathematical in its precision. Morris would take an initial move and repeat...
...person that saves the king-a man named Willis, former priest and amateur physician-does so by shocking him into sanity, by breaking him up so he can be built up again. Willis character demands a mixture of sternness and doting which unfortunately evades title actor Alexis Burgess. The error is on the side of severity, as Burgess's Willis breaks George through boot camp discipline combined with asylum methods. His role in the production is not that of foil for the king's will, but, at best, of disciplinarian. Burgess's Willis is a tool to hammer reason back...
...piece by Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele "Throwing the Game" [BIG MONEY & POLITICS, Sept. 25] focused attention on a problem of growing concern to the collegiate athletic community. Gambling on amateur sporting events, including college games and the Olympics, is a serious problem. This report brought to light the tragic cases of young athletes whose careers have been ruined and whose actions have caused a cloud of scandal to hang over the colleges and universities they attended long after the incidents of game fixing and point shaving occurred. But even if there weren't scandals, we believe...