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Into this furor comes Taylor, erstwhile political reporter for the Washington Post, who apart from general civic-mindedness had his own reasons for taking up this crusade. It was he who in 1987 asked presidential candidate Gary Hart whether he had ever committed adultery, thereby changing forever the rules about probing the private lives of public figures. "There's no question that it prompted a whole lot of soul-searching in me," Taylor says...
...dialogue is so snappy and pleasantly consonant it doesn't matter. ("I worship you, I adore you, last Halloween, I was you" crows one of Alex's downtown friends to the bouffanty Mrs. Bemiss.) Director Christopher Ashley uses Derek McLane's sleek, convincing sets--Alex's loft and the Civic Central art museum--to the fullest extent, giving the actors a range of movement and building rhythm through the performance...
...appearance West canceled was supposed to be a speech followed by a panel discussion, centering on two of his recent books, Race Matters and Blacks and Jews: Let the Healing Begin. Organizers had expected between 300 and 500 people, including community religious and civic leaders for the speech...
Granted, some ball parks probably aren't worth saving. Not many folks in Cleveland, Ohio, for instance, preferred spider-infested Municipal Stadium to Jacobs Field, the brand-new Camden Yards knockoff that puffed up civic pride even while the school system was going down the tubes. Not many tears will be shed for Candlestick Park in San Francisco and County Stadium in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and the Kingdome in Seattle if and when those yards bite the dust...
Apart from the fact that Gantt is an African American, there is little to distinguish one candidate from the other. Gantt, 53, is a self-made man and an experienced civic leader; Sanders, 64, is a heart specialist, an eminently confident sort of suture-self surgeon...