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...refreshing breath of foppery comes from Lord Brounker (Mike Efron). An envoy to the King, he brings both good and bad news to Sir John. Fabulously beribboned in pink, Brounker is a starlet who wags his opulence in the face of the sick and the desperate. Literally a pink triangle, his effeminate manner and costuming furnish a witty reminder of the politics of our own age. Efron brings just the right delicate edge to make his performance stand...
...sobs from inside the rubble told rescue workers instantly that children were still in the building, still alive. They plunged into the debris, turning over cribs and furniture, hoping to find signs of life, catching their breath at the sight of babies burned beyond recognition. "We started moving bricks and rocks," said police sergeant John Avera, "and we found two babies." Firemen tenderly carried the infants, as paramedics wrapped them in long white gauze like christening dresses. Several toddlers were found wandering around the underground parking lot, searching for parents. The parents in turn scrambled through the chaos, frantic...
...tragic consequence command our passions. That was the case last week when Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense under Kennedy and Johnson, expressed shame over America's conduct of the Vietnam War. Suddenly, hot arguments over the justice of that war resumed as if interrupted only by a pause for breath, rather than the passage of decades...
Iacocca is just the opposite. In the same breath that he denies any ambition to return to management, he sketches out plans for the company's future. Though he brings a relative pittance to the deal in Chrysler stock--about $50 million--the value of his reputation, and the credibility it lends to Kerkorian, is priceless. And as Iacocca knows, with this deal he again puts it on the line. Revered as the man who would not let Chrysler fall, could he also be a man unable...
Page and Plant twice surrendered the stage to Nigel Sherman, an alternative British rock star accompanying them on the tour. While Sherman played the hurdey-gurdey, Page and Plant caught their breath and gulped down a couple bottles of Gatorade...