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...Beirut. Phalangist guides directed Israeli armor through the streets of East Beirut, not far from the capital's so-called Green Line dividing the Christian and Muslim sectors. Israeli gunboats patrolled the port and coastline, thwarting nearly all naval traffic. To the south, invasion troops occupied a wide arc, stretching from the Khalde road junction into Beirut's surrounding hills, merging with Phalangist forces and blocking any escape...
...biographies of Lyndon Johnson accuse him of both worldly corruption and spiritual hallucinations. Journalist Ronnie Bugger, for example, cites L.B.J.'s vivid conviction that he was talking regularly to the Holy Ghost-in person, like Joan of Arc...
...century music, Court pulses with such energy that its precise choreography blurs. A theatrical, sinewy Elie Chaib and the cool, correct Carolyn Adams unleash steps that leave dancers in the audience breathless. All the Taylor signature movements are concentrated here: performers extend into precarious postures, arms and hands arc into orbit, leaps become new formations in midair. Few works in the current dance repertory dis play so much vibrancy and amplitude. The piece contains a message as well: modern dance has risen from the floor-where it lay in defiance of ballet-to employ an immense treasure of movement...
...under the partial spell of Ruisdael's sea pieces, his slim parallelograms of rusty sail leaning on the wind-chopped estuary. Most of all, John Constable was inspired by his sense of nature seen fresh, without evident convention: the patches of scudding sunlight on wheat fields, the broken arc of a rainbow, the painterly delight in filling three-quarters of a canvas with high piling clouds. Time and again, one sees images in Constable that might have been lifted straight from Ruisdael. Hadleigh Castle, 1829, with its tall split tower and ruins behind, virtually repeats the motif of Ruisdael...
...Actors' Fund, a showfolks' charity created in 1882 by such stalwarts as P.T Barnum and Edwin Booth, and raise money to build a nursing facility next to the Actors' Fund home in Englewood, N.J. The first 90 minutes of the show were a smooth arc of excitement and unapologetic razzle-dazzle: a lyric Try to Remember by Harry Belafonte, a monologue delivered at giddy white heat by Robin Williams ("What excitement backstage-everyone's standing around in little pools of Perrier"), a dingbat piano solo by Dudley Moore, and film clips of such stars as James...