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...when, on her deathbed, she "sees" her absent daughter, is actually an improvement. In three major roles, however, the new ensemble falls far short: Terrence Mann sings Javert impeccably, but in an effort to humanize him, loses his obsessive core; Leo Burmester as the grasping innkeeper Thenardier and Jennifer Butt as his wife are neither scary nor funny, depriving the show of its keenest image of ignobility while also flattening much needed comic romps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: An Epic of the Downtrodden | 3/23/1987 | See Source »

...mean or vicious. But you take a look at how you're perceived, and obviously you don't want that perception." Friends agree that since his marriage to Elizabeth, he has mellowed, replacing the hatchet with a stiletto. As often as not these days, he makes himself the butt of his own jokes. Reflecting on the 1976 campaign, he quips, "My assignment was to go for the jugular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign Portrait, Bob Dole:Survivor On the Track | 3/23/1987 | See Source »

...many penalties by a team can be costly. With Michigan Tech down by a goal in the dying seconds of a CCHA playoff game some years ago, an opposing player butt-ended the Tech student manager, drawing a five-minute major. Tech scored on the power play to send the game into overtime, then won in overtime--on the same five-minute major...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Playing Rough | 3/20/1987 | See Source »

...first attempt at snowboarding can be a humbling experience. Professional skiers and dazzling skateboarders often start at ground zero, and in some cases they stay there. For the novice the only controls are stop (sit down) and go (very fast). "My butt may be sore, but that's the price you pay for a thrill," says Symms. Fortunately, after a harrowing start, most newcomers master the art as quickly as they fall down. "By your third day you can be skiing slopes that beginning skiers wouldn't touch," says David Alden, a former amateur snowboard champion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Snowboarders Invade the Slopes | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

...into the house. One day a large male baboon pursued Thelma Hall down the veranda and into the house. The baboon came inside after her. She remembers its awful yellow fangs. John Hall came after the baboon with his shotgun, but the gun jammed. Hall jabbed with the gun butt, and the baboon started chewing it up. Finally, Hall whacked the baboon on the head with the gun butt, and it ran under a bed, where Hall finally shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

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