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...PULLING THE FUSE ON CULTURE'' IS A brilliant case for continued funding of the arts agencies-and more funding, not less. It passionately spells out the incredible shortsightedness and downright stupidity of those who oppose them. JONATHAN BOLT New York City
...skeptics who forced the crisis, but the many conservative M.P.s who are wavering over Major's record as Prime Minister and the Tories' precipitous decline in the polls. The Conservatives trail Labour by 39 points, according to one poll, and with seats and parliamentary careers at stake, many could bolt for a more voter-friendly leader. Says a conservative M.P. privately: "The main problem is that this government is incompetent and indecisive. Its policies keep changing. It even fails to publicize the positive things it has done, so people think it's a complete failure...
...Harry could have lost the money, Harry tells the story of the night they returned from robbing the bank. Lucille was not in her room at the Marilyn Motel, and Julian went to look for her. He was subsequently arrested. While Harry was waiting for him to return, a bolt of lighting hit the roof of the motel, the swimming pool started to glow, and a naked man rose out of the water, shocked Harry into unconsciousness and took the money. This outlandish story turns out to be true, and the naked man turns out to be Johnny Destiny...
...according to Rizzo, who received his masters degree from Harvard in 1988, since the walkway was never built, "bolt caps" should be placed over the exposed bolts...
DIED. ROBERT BOLT, 70, playwright and screenwriter; after years of declining health; in southern England. The theme of an individual's struggle for moral equilibrium in the face of world-shattering historical events runs through much of Bolt's work, from his career-making play, 1960's A Man for All Seasons, which he fashioned into an Oscar-winning screenplay for the 1966 movie version, to his scripts for the David Lean epics Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and Dr. Zhivago (1965)-the latter earning Bolt an Oscar...