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...eyed and putty-legged when they see a panda rolling around on its ample posterior, twisting its puffy body into a seemingly impossible position, or eating an apple -- nothing more exotic than an apple! -- with its handlike paw. "I can't think of any animal that compares," says William Conway, director of the New York Zoological Society. "People love penguins, but the interest in pandas is extraordinary. There appears to be an innate response of, 'Oh, isn't it cute...
...fellows from Cambridge are: Blackman,principal of the Haggerty School; Kathleen Conway,who teaches at the Tobin School; and ElizabethGrady, a teacher at the Cambridge Rindge and LatinSchool...
...leasing industry has flourished in part because the deregulation of airlines in the U.S. spawned many fledgling carriers that could ill afford to buy new aircraft. Tempe, Ariz.-based America West got off the ground by leasing ten Boeing 737s -- its entire fleet. Says America West President Michael Conway: "Without leasing, we would have had to raise a lot more money...
Director Max Charruyer, Set Designer John-Michael Deegan and Lighting Designer John Conway have skillfully interwoven the dramatized and quasi- documentary scenes and monologues for each character. Kelly's best help, however, comes from a superb ensemble cast, especially Christie, Michael Countryman as Jackson, Arnie Mazer as the loutish Swede Risberg and John A. O'Hern as the quietly sodden Fred McMullin. The roles could easily resemble the agglomeration familiar from war movies: a doomed innocent, a hot-tempered sidekick, a misfit willing to do anything to fit in. But they enact their stories so convincingly that one cannot help...
...Adkinson, "you'd better be about music." But not just country music: Opryland's 120 acres embrace doo-wop and Duke Ellington in as many as a dozen simultaneous stage shows. Then it's 20 miles northeast to Hendersonville and a stop at Twitty City, the monument Country Star Conway Twitty has built to himself, including a guided tour conducted by a giant mechanical Twitty Bird. (Just down the road is Johnny Cash's House of Cash, a museum that is proud to display Al Capone's favorite chair.) The next day you'll tool eastward to Dollywood, "the friendliest...