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...Dolores DeLago. Midler's most powerful number, Stay with Me (best heard on the sound-track album of her 1980 concert film, Divine Madness), is the plea of a woman to her departing lover. Her mood is desperate; her sexual pride has been flayed raw. She can only beg and scream. Bette scorches the soul with this one. In six minutes she wrings out herself and the song, and mops up the audience as well. Her cover versions of all these songs make the originals sound like demo tapes...
Whitehead, who did not accept her fee or sign over custody, took the child home with her. Three days later the Sterns collected the baby from the Whitehead home, but next morning Whitehead came by to beg for the infant's temporary return. After a two-hour encounter that both sides say was punctuated by emotional outbursts, the Sterns reluctantly agreed. "We thought she was suicidal," William Stern said. Two weeks later, when the Sterns came to her home, Whitehead told them she would not give up the child...
...Gosplan ((the central economic planning agency)). For Gosplan there exist no authorities, no General Secretaries, no Central Committees. They do what they want. The situation they like best is for someone to come into their private office and ask for a million, for 20 tractors, for 40,000 -- to beg them...
...tastes were fixed on Henry's--"Let's get a case of H," we'd say. More important, we got our driver's licenses. That way, we could drive to a parking lot and sit in the warm car while a noble soul would stand outside the store and beg people to make the important purchase...
...open the champagne. Lines like this, no matter how heartfelt, become exhausting after a while and beg to be parodied. Still, Leavitt, like Philip, must be taken with a grain of salt. Both 25-year-olds need time to mature, to stop pandering for approval. But they also have much to offer, and their occasional well-meaning lapses can, when viewed with the right attitude, make them all the more endearing...