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...this production. Close, with a voice like the young Stevie wonder, knocks the audience out with his bluesy numbers as Jupiter, and again as the Sun, in an amusing duet in which he and the North Wind (Paul Stickney) compete to see who can remove a young man's coat the fastest...
...years of naval service, I have never seen a naval officer with his coat collar turned up like a journalist's. Pug also should have been wearing a white silk scarf. Otherwise it was a nice shot of Mitchum...
...more his biographers have put down. Washington was a prudent conserver but not a brilliant reformer. He was sober unto dullness. He lacked the common touch so much that not even his British enemies had a derogatory nickname for him during the war. He could strip off his coat and help the field hands, but he had no very close friends. The Marquis de Lafayette, his French ally, was as close as anyone. To humanize Washington, suggests Cunliffe, would be to falsify him, though of course many have tried to do that in the past two centuries...
...depth of Ghana's economic malaise is painfully visible on the streets of Accra, the capital. Potholes are everywhere; government buildings have not seen a new coat of paint in a decade. In the city's once thriving central market, goods are now in short supply. An egg costs $2.20; a pack of cigarettes, $30. Many factories have closed completely for lack of materials, while those that remain open commonly operate at only 10% of capacity. Harvests of cassava, the staple vegetable of the Ghanaian diet, have fallen to 1.8 million tons, down from 3.6 million tons...
...Thoroughbred requires unusual amounts of exercise, since he has lately been on a special, high-energy diet in anticipation of four months of standing for a different brood mare every other day. Yet allowing him outdoors in the winter cold would be risky for the horse and horsenapers. His coat could be dyed: Shergar has white feet and a striking white blaze running the length of his face. But the stallion also has an unusual and unalterable amount of white in the left eye. Declared the daily Irish Independent: "At least one-third of Ireland would know him on sight...