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...Another charmer, Bob Mulholland, a California Democrat, crawled out from under his rock long enough to declare that he planned to indecently expose the Republicans who sought to indecently expose the President. The White House hit him with a stick, and he slunk back to obscurity...
Sally herself, played by Natasha Richardson, is older, more wasted, less the perky-quirky charmer played by Liza Minnelli in the 1972 movie. Richardson (The Handmaid's Tale onscreen; Anna Christie onstage; Vanessa Redgrave's daughter in real life) doesn't belt out the Kander and Ebb numbers a la Liza; she acts them. The climactic title song, most startlingly, is no longer a triumphant anthem. Richardson clutches the microphone and grits through the lyrics ("Start by admitting/ From cradle to tomb/ Isn't that long a stay"), shouting her defiance even as she struggles to keep from flying apart...
...Nagano is the unpretentious town you learn to like, Hakuba, an hour away by bus (and site of many of the snowy events) is the practiced charmer that grabs you instantly. This is in part, no doubt, because Nagano is a city with 360,000 people--more populous than Iceland--while Hakuba is a village of just 9,400 residents, a picture-perfect poster site for the Japan Alps with its Chalet Heidihof pensions and white birch forests encircled by snowcaps reflected in the Princess River...
Like a snake charmer, Greenspan talked the market into a catatonic state--or was it that traders were merely exhausted? Prices remained somewhat stable the rest of the week, and by Friday the Dow stood 9.9% below its all-time high and few investors seemed much worse for the wear. There were some casualties, among them speculator George Soros, whose company lost $2 billion on Monday. Several Fed presidents joined Greenspan in talking up the economy. "The basics of the U.S. economy are strong," said Cathy Minehan, president of the Boston Federal Reserve Bank. "I see no reason why that...
...crew prepared for the day, Lazutkin floated into the main module and rigged the television monitor that had so famously failed weeks before. He worked the cables with the skill of a snake charmer, hooking them up to the TV with an authoritative snap. "You're not going to have a problem this time," he reassured Tsibliyev. "The picture is not going to disappear...