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Consider Antigua, for example, a low-lying island with beaches of soft white sand where both British royals and rockers like to vacation. Under decades of rule by Vere Bird Sr., the tiny island with a population of only 63,000 became one of the most corrupt in the region, long known for sheltering traffickers in armaments and drugs. According to U.S. intelligence sources, Bird's son Vere Jr. has been tied to a 1990 plot to establish a school that would train mercenaries to fight for the Medellin cartel. He was also involved, they say, in covert gun shipments...
...having been reduced to a form of glitzy torture, the show no longer merits such treatment. I base this conclusion on its infinite inferiority in entertainment value to Tweety Bird as Peter Lorre's Ugarte. I must recommend that my successors end the tradition which has, like the Pudding's brand of humor, run its course...
Never mind that St. Valentine's Day takes place in the spring, which as I imagine the birds would tell you now, is awfully cold for mating. Henry Kelly, who actually wrote a book on this subject, suggests that Chaucer's St. Valentine's Day took place not in midwinter but in early May, in honor of an obscure saint from Genoa. Later poets erroneously carried the bird's mating day to the original St. Valentine's feast day on February...
...second half of the season. At a news conference that day, he modestly claimed that he was "five steps slower." He said he was going to try to play not like the old Magic but like an old friend and rival: "I'll be doing my Larry Bird imitation...
...Alley Cats" is quite possibly theater at its worst. Robinson seems to have lost all the restraint, subtlety of message and clarity of vision which makes "Live Bird" a satisfying drama. The cast of "Alley Cats" is unspeakably poor, except for Robinson himself and drummer Dwight Hart. The whole mess is like a childish scribble obscuring the quality of Robinson's music. One can only hope that Robinson either returns to the more focused, steady approach of "Live Bird" or abandons drama altogether in favor of his music. If "Alley Cats" is any indication, Robinson's career may mimic that...