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...answer is a qualified yes. As Walter Lee, a chauffeur with dreams of starting his own business, a frustrated patriarch in a house full of women, he has an easy naturalism onstage. His bantamweight body is lithe and expressive--now sullen, now cocky, now bitterly mocking--and he gives Walter a punkish charm. Where he doesn't measure up is in the big scenes. At the climactic moment when Walter realizes the money he has entrusted to a friend is irretrievably lost, Combs is too cool a customer to really register the blow. (He told his acting coach, according...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Raisin and the Rapper | 5/10/2004 | See Source »

...sabotage and attempted overthrow of the South African government alongside Nelson Mandela in 1963. Following his acquittal, Bernstein moved to England where he practiced as an architect. DIED. PEDRO ALCAZAR, 26, a Panamanian boxer, of a brain injury 36 hours after he lost his World Boxing Organization junior bantamweight title fight; in Las Vegas. Alcazar showed no signs of injury immediately after the bout, before suddenly collapsing. DIED. MILES FRANCIS STAPLETON FITZALAN-HOWARD, 86, the 17th Duke of Norfolk; in Henley-on-Thames, England. As holder of the office of earl marshal, the duke was the country's senior nobleman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Person of the Week | 7/1/2002 | See Source »

...musicals, but westerns, weepies, Marx Brothers farces - had original songs. In the 40s and 50s it had Kelly and his MGM team, and that was more than enough; that was heaven. Even in the 60s, when the genre was long past its vital prime, yet the industry keep producing bantamweight musical series starring Doris Day, Elvis Presley, Frankie and Annette. As recently as the 90s, Disney?s tremendously successful cartoon features were musicals, with songs that hit the top of the charts. For ages, the genre was both popular and officially revered: nine times in the first 40 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Dancin? Man | 3/2/2002 | See Source »

...sense of humor is on the dry side. So it was quite useful that Gore's senior staff members on the campaign trail were always ready with a dose of exuberant wit. Whether surrounded by needling reporters or awakened in the middle of the night, Chris Lehane, Gore's bantamweight press secretary, winked his way through every bon mot. While other staff members gravely questioned Bush's experience, Lehane instead laughingly squealed, "He's as confounded as he is confused! He's as flummoxed as he is floundering! He's as puzzled as he is perplexed!" Then there was Greg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gore Campaign: Election 2000: The Kids In The Hall | 11/20/2000 | See Source »

...poetry seems to emerge more naturally out of the front-porch realism. But it does provide a platform for an impressive Broadway debut by film and TV star Woody Harrelson. Instead of the larger-than-life hamminess that Burt Lancaster brought to the role on film, Harrelson has a bantamweight's charm and easy physicality (at one point he does a handstand onstage). You can almost, but not quite, believe he'd fall for Lizzie, delicately played by Jayne Atkinson. Just as you can almost, but not quite, believe this well-made but sentimental play was worth reviving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Wet Weather: His vehicle leaks, but Woody Harrelson shines | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

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