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...like Huck Finn's kid sister with the inevitable Carter smile, she basks in all the attention without letting it turn her head. She has, however, learned to turn a profit by selling lemonade and sandwiches at her already famous stand in Plains. In one day's brisk entrepreneurship, she and her pint-size partners earned $23 from tourists and newsmen who were thirsty for anything that the Carter family provided...
...this brisk defense of George III shows, the British still differ with the U.S. over what happened in 1776. But after 200 years, they are prepared to be good losers. One notable sign: the lavish pictorial exhibit celebrating their defeat that is currently on display at Greenwich's National Maritime Museum, where it is expected to attract more than 1 million visitors. Two years in the making, "1776, the British Story of the American Revolution" traces events from just before the Stamp Act was imposed, in 1764, to George Ill's gracious acceptance of credentials from John Adams...
...planning your summer theater season in advance (and it pays to--advance subscriptions are cheaper), coming up on the Rep's schedule are Life with Father and That Championship Season. The former--which stars Hamlin, who will also direct, as "father"--has had a brisk advance sale, so it might be a good idea to get tickets...
...polar conflict of the play is be tween love and empire or desire and duty, with Egypt symbolizing one and Rome the other. Director Phillips sets up a telling counterpoint between the brisk, businesslike military scenes and the perfumed enchantment of the amorous interludes...
Paunchy, silver-haired Antonio Perelli is a lawyer and an organizer for the Christian Democratic Party in Cosenza, a sun-drenched river town of 120,000 in the southern Italian region of Calabria. Brisk, wiry Fausto Gelsomino, a printer by trade, is an official of Cosenza's Communist Party. Friendly enemies, the two men have known each other for years, and last week they were among the 30,000 people who gathered at the Piazza Fera for a Communist campaign rally at which the featured speaker was Party Boss Enrico Berlinguer. Shortly afterward, Perelli and Gelsomino...