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...director is the star. Both dicta might apply to Phantom, which is opulently costumed, lushly scored, full of spectacular stage pictures and chockablock with pastiches of 19th century warhorse opera. But in the midst of all the mechanics there are 2 1/2 performances that achieve some emotional depth. Michael Crawford commands the stage as the Phantom, bringing complete conviction to such fantasies as a midair descent on a chariot of gilded cherubs and a boating trip on a subterranean lake dotted with candelabra. As his alternately terrified and thrilled disciple, Sarah Brightman is more singer than actress but still manages...
...Soviets might let Daniloff go with the understanding that Zakharov would be traded later for someone more suitable: a prominent Soviet dissident, perhaps, or a Soviet citizen convicted of spying for the U.S. That is roughly what happened in 1978, when the Soviets freed U.S. Businessman F. Jay Crawford after he was accused of smuggling; two Soviet U.N. employees who had been imprisoned in the U.S. for espionage were later traded for five Soviet dissidents...
...sister, Annie-Laurie "Ala" von Auersperg Kneissl, Mrs. von Bulow's children by a previous marriage, have fought von Bulow's efforts to reinstate Cosima von Bulow's claim to her share of the $50 million estate left by Mrs. von Bulow's mother, the late Annie Laurie Crawford Aitken...
...trial was a media event because it was exciting. It was trash: good, all-American trash. It was not, however, a media event because of the fancy legal maneuvering that accompanied Claus von Bulow's initial conviction--and subsequent acquittal--for twice attempting to murder his heiress wife Sunny Crawford von Auersperg von Bulow...
...disastrous flip- flop decision to change the formula of the world's best-selling soft drink, Coca-Cola has emerged bigger, wealthier and vastly more diversified than ever before. Reflecting that fact, Coca-Cola stock closed last week at 111 1/8, nearly 70% higher than a year ago. Exults Crawford Johnson, a Birmingham Coca- Cola bottler: "We're in the best competitive position I can remember...