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...Company's production of Stephen Sondheim's "Company" evokes emotion far beyond the squeals and sobs that touring companies of "Les Miserables" manufacture eight times a week. "Company," recently revamped from its 1970 original, explores the life of Robert (Davis Gaines), a New York bachelor who contemplates his 35th birthday. Robert is soon visited by his closest friends, five married couples, who show him that maturity represents an assumption of responsibility. The birthday becomes a symbol for the affirmation of Robert's willingness to look beyond himself, to make a commitment to the company that marriage offers...
...McVeigh or that they will know him any better. He remains a mysterious figure. When he enters the courtroom, he continues to look relaxed and even jocular, until the jury comes in, and then his face goes blank. His only real confidant appears to be Jones. He had a birthday on April 23, when he turned 29; his lawyers gave him two flannel shirts and a box of Peppermint Patties. He spends most of his time in jail reading the piles of mail he receives. He also reads books. Last month it was W. Somerset Maugham's The Razor...
...Malcolm X was gunned down in a New York City auditorium, his widow would still speak of him at times in the present tense. "Malcolm thinks," Betty Shabazz might say. Or, "Malcolm's advice is..." On May 19 she attended celebrations to mark what would have been his 72nd birthday. "This has been the greatest day of my life," she told friends later. "Everywhere I went, I heard his voice on tapes." But after her husband's death, Shabazz didn't exactly linger in the past. She got a doctorate in education administration, eventually became director of public relations...
...influential Senators show her off with constituents. Her most ardent courtship has been of Senator Jesse Helms, the Foreign Relations Committee's curmudgeonly chairman whose home state of North Carolina Albright has visited twice. During her trip there last March, she spoke at Helms' alma mater and attended a birthday dinner for his wife. When Albright boarded the Air Force jet to return to Washington, she found on her seat a bag of barbecue he had had delivered...
These codes require him to govern his behavior and control his actions. He doesn't drink, really, except once with the "Amistad" cast in Newport and once on his twenty-first birthday...