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...manipulates the crowds as they trot out of the Circle in the Square and the Uris simultaneously, steering them to another train of limos and a field of rusty Chryslers. The violinist's eyes reflect the melancholy dreams of a man who has spent this evening sidewalk-hopping. His bow claws at his violin while he glances woefully at the case at his feet, a felt-covered basin for six quarters, nine dimes and a tribe of pennies. "C'mon folks, if you give a little more, I won't play so badly. I teach at Julliard, really. Here...
...leadership vacuum, however, may increase the responsiveness of the traditionally elite dominated Japanese political system. Without a LDP will have to bow to the pressure of opposition parties and local consumer group movements who have sharply criticized the party's emphasis on or environmental integrity. Opposition parties are already clamoring for the abolition of some of the tax breaks the LDP has granted big business...
...course, the special-interest dominated Congress, which, among other things, offered statehood to Norway and prohibited the importation into the United States of prunes, shredded wheat, ice skates, bow ties and corduroy, was the last straw for conventional American government. An angry mob forced the "Horrible Hundredth" Congress out of the country, and Walter Cronkite routed John-John Kennedy in the first video-election to become the first Anchorman of the United States...
...Democrats meeting in Cincinnati in 1856 gave a polite bow to Pierce and put his name on the first ballot, but even then James Buchanan got more votes By the 17th ballot Franklin Pierce had drifted into oblivion and the nomination went to Buchanan, a Pennsylvania bachelor who turned out to be not much of an improvement. But he did start his presidency with a proper celebration at which were consumed 400 gallons of oysters, 60 saddles of mutton, 125 tongues, a cake four feet high and $3,000 worth of wine...
...turn-of-the-century Broadway stage who became a leading fine arts patron; in New York City. A third-generation actress, Eleanor Robson triumphed in Merely Mary Ann and so impressed George Bernard Shaw that he wrote Major Barbara with her in mind. After a 1910 farewell bow before weeping fans, Robson married August Belmont, banker, racing-stable owner, and a multimillionaire nearly twice her age. Thus began a new role as society grande dame and philanthropist. Closest to her heart was the Metropolitan Opera, which she rescued in the lean 1930s by forming the fund-raising Met Opera Guild...