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...money, a 10-degree smit from the past two productions. (Serf's Up and Sealed with a Oudhe both concerned the successful exploitation of peasants by royalists.) The first Western in the Pudding's history, Of Men appropriately concern gold, as a corps of ludierotis converge on Collier's Bluff, a gold-fevered California mining town. As the play's opening number, which had audience members nod in appreciation, succinctly observes...
...Poplar Bluff...
...Illinois, death row is up on a bluff in a sandstone prison opened in 1878. The 49 current inmates have a 19th century landscape artist's view-the Mississippi River and miles of rich farmland beyond-except for the bars and razor wire. Menard Correctional Center (pop. 2,600) is the principal industry of Chester, Ill. (pop. 8,000). The inmates, two of whom are scheduled to be electrocuted this spring, are alone in their cells for at least 21 hours a day. When they are in transit, once a day to the law library and once...
...like making love. The act is always the same, but each time it's different." But some things were consistent. His Chopin-and he was peerless in Chopin-was strong-willed and large-boned, robust and masculine, yet sensitive and poetic. His Brahms was as hearty, bluff and ruminative as the composer himself. Rubinstein played Spanish music with the brio of a native (Spain was one of his favorite countries), and Impressionist music like a born Frenchman. Perhaps that was to be expected from a man who seemed at home everywhere and who spoke eight languages. Rubinstein...
...stake in our political relations with the Soviet Union ... which could conceivably be worth a nuclear war," writes the dean of American Kremlinologists. Therefore the vow to retaliate against Soviet aggression with the American nuclear arsenal quite simply does not make sense to him. It is either a bluff or a suicide threat-in neither case a basis for sound policy...