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...Hoogenboom, a wonderfully iconoclastic historian at Brooklyn College, has written two books on Hayes in the firm belief that history has shortchanged him, and in no small part because of a throwaway line by the brilliant but careless author Thomas Wolfe, who described Hayes along with Arthur, James Garfield and Benjamin Harrison as "lost Americans" with "gravely vacant and bewhiskered faces...
...also brought down to size a bit on the British stage. In the National's Death of a Salesman, Willy is played by Alun Armstrong (a veteran of musicals like Les Miserables as well as the original cast of Nicholas Nickleby), whose tidy little mustache, hangdog expression and Brooklyn accent anchor him firmly in the dreary everyday. Armstrong's Willy is a small man, too downtrodden even to rail with much conviction. It's an elegant production, the dominant stage image a tree in full blossom, with a broken trunk. The big scenes are somewhat muted (Marjorie Yates' Linda...
There were tears in Los Angeles and cackles in a certain New York City borough on Jan. 6. Forty years after his father removed the family business to L.A. from Brooklyn, Peter O'Malley announced that he was selling the firm--namely, the Dodgers. By transplanting the beloved Bums to California in 1958, the unsentimental Walter O'Malley had ushered the era of Big Business into baseball; last week Peter claimed that the current game's corporate-scale economics were forcing him to sell. Something about the sins of the father leaped to the minds of people whose hearts...
...ANGELES: When owner Peter O'Malley announced that he was putting the Los Angeles Dodgers up for sale, old-time Dodger fans in Brooklyn saw their first ray of hope in the 40 years since O'Malley's father Walter moved the Bums out of the city. Could the Dodgers return? "Bring 'Em Back!" the New York Post shouted on page one. Columnist Jack Newfield, who ranks Walter O'Malley as the third worst person of this century behind Hitler and Stalin, said the decision to sell could mean an end to what he called "40 years lost...
...drugs, others throw them away. With further breakthroughs reportedly on the way, there are AIDS patients concerned that today's medications will somehow make their bodies less responsive to better ones tomorrow. "There are 18 new treatments in the pipeline," says Teresa Nieves, 30, an AIDS patient in Brooklyn, New York, who wouldn't take the three-drug cocktail her doctor prescribed. "What I fear is that using this concoction will disqualify me for more promising ones...