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There is, however, one pain every congressman understands--losing an election. If Congressional election margins were to shift radically against incumbents, those who were able to cling to their seats would get the point...
Every weekday nearly 25,000 hungry men and women walk into soup kitchens throughout New York City in search of a hot meal. Myths and stereotypes cling to the homeless, but few hard facts are known about who they are. This week a study by New York's Legal Action Center for the Homeless paints a more detailed picture of some 500 people who eat at soup kitchens...
...while after the pro basketball merger, Erving and Philadelphia regularly fell just short of the ultimate victory. He kept telling himself that "the work itself is what counts. As hard as it was to make myself believe that, it was the only thing I had to cling to each year, that every game, every night, I did the best I could." In 1983 Philadelphia's eventual triumph seemed to be fundamentally his, and more than one city cheered...
...Italian-born composer, 75, has long purveyed a brand of derivative, pseudoromantic opera, such as The Consul and The Saint of Bleecker Street, which both somehow won Pulitzer Prizes in the '50s and still cling to life on the edges of repertory. Although it has been years since Menotti has had a hit, his name still means opera to those for whom annual Christmas telecasts of the treacly Amahl and the Night Visitors were a cultural high point. Goya, however, is a new low: a brazen melange of elements from Traviata and Puccini's La Rondine, served up with music...
...message in Scapine is not terribly profound. Moliere draws a harsh comic picture of the bourgeoisie, obsessed with money and appearances, yet gullible and foolish. Octavio and Leander, dependent upon their parents' fortunes, are too cowardly to follow their hearts. Argante and Geronte, mean and suspicious, cling so tightly to their purses that their children are relegated to a subordinate position in their lives. Only Scapine lives a life of pleasure, controlling the rich through her clever schemes...