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Jeremiah Kissel, with his awe-inspiring sideburns and jutting jaw, makes and impressive Crampton, the dentist's landlord and the feminist's long-lost husband. The image of a man unable to handle change, he is belligerently ill-at-ease in an era where the whip can no longer be used to sort out family disputes. Unfortunately, Kissel is a little less convincing when he drops his chronic grumbling in favor of a sentimental attitude...
...became the odd couple of the free world, the brilliant parvenus. They collaborated -- victor and vanquished, senior genius of industry and eager, hardworking apprentice. America sponsored Japan almost ex nihilo, out of the ashes, became its protector and ultimately its best, most lucrative customer. The Japanese stood in grateful awe of all things American and overlaid their ancient culture with a new layer mockingly like that of their sponsors. The Japanese sent back to their benefactors a steady stream of goods, tinny toys in the early years, then better stuff. Much better stuff...
...bakery remains unknown to most students,however. When they do stumble upon the bakery,Sanchez-Ramirez says, "We always enjoy the awe.[The students] can't believe...
...producer, is the man responsible for getting it on the air. An 18- year veteran of ABC News who joined CNN in 1983, Furnad is a feisty field general who can berate his troops for a technical slipup one minute and praise them warmly the next. Staffers stand in awe of his poise and judgment under fire. "As wild as he is," says anchor Bobbie Battista, "there isn't anybody I'd rather have in there...
...Cole was that good. He could sing up there with Sinatra, Billy Eckstine, Tony Bennett; "one of our four or five most awe-inspiring and most popular mainstream vocalists" is the way Will Friedwald sums it up in his kinetic and knowledgeable essays accompanying the set. Along with that considerable distinction, Cole was also a superb keyboard man, mightily influenced by the great Earl Hines and able to hold his own against -- if not precisely surpass -- his mentor and the likes of Art Tatum. When he became a pop superstar, he gradually shed the bass and guitar that had been...