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...play opens as Gordon, a shy bartender played with candor and sensitivity by Andrew Barth, is writing a personals ad. He is, in the playwright's own words, a "narrator left in the dark." Like Will Self's hermaphroditic Oxford don, Gordon is a postmodern creation. Recently, it has become deceptively easy to label anything vaguely eccentric as postmodern. But The Wombs of Angel Street, with its rejection of cause-effect linearity and its characters' use of subjective imagination to recreate reality, clearly embraces some of the genre's conventions...
...probably would have passed. But by last week there was no time left to wear down the opposition. The Senate last Friday failed to shut off debate on the issue, with five Democrats joining 41 Republicans in opposition. Senate majority leader Bob Dole, in a fit of candor, explained that spending limits would hurt Republican candidates more than Democrats, adding, "We don't see why we should help them do us harm...
Despite his candor, Evans leaves out some intriguing material. There's no mention of his friend Heidi Fleiss, for example, and he makes just a throwaway reference to his role in a stock scheme that allegedly scammed millions from investors. Even the Cotton Club murder gets short shrift; it's dispensed with in 14 pages. Still, Evans demonstrates that despite his years in Hollywood, he has the right values: he devotes a mere four pages to his tennis game...
Presiding over this brood of prospects and scufflers is manager Howie Freiling, 28, who never saw the Bigs. "I had a cup of coffee in Triple A," he says with disarming candor. "I was a first baseman who didn't hit for power. The fact that I was a well-below-average runner didn't help." Pitching coach Dave LaRoche did make it to the Show, compiling a 65-58 record in a career that lasted 14 seasons. Yet the minors attract him on a gut level. "If I wasn't in baseball," LaRoche says, "I would live...
...conversation, Jerry expressed hisnegative appraisal of the move on its merits, andhe was equally critical of the University's lackof candor in its decision to ignore it in thebrochure," Wolfman wrote in his memo. "He told mesomething of the discussion of the move that tookplace at a meeting in which the Deans participatedand in which he voiced his opposition...