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...LIFE WAS by Jeffrey Simpson. 146 pages. Praeger. $19.95. This collection of crisp black-and-white photographs illustrates aspects of American life from 1880 to 1915. The dates are more or less arbitrary, a roomy frame for the works of the 16 photographers whose portfolios are included. Some are well known, others relatively obscure. All survive in these photographs, along with their subjects. Eyes stare back from these pages with startling clarity...
...Sullivan voice in the cast, a compound of condescension and donnish befuddlement, and it's unfortunate he didn't have the chance to perform a patter song. His "I've Got a Little List"--perhaps the number that has proved most useful to later parodists--sounds fresh and crisp; his "Taken From a County Jail," though, didn't come up to this high standard and lacked the clarity of diction essential to understanding Gilbert's lyrics...
...count case. Last week Sirica suggested that he might dismiss two of the counts against Mitchell and Ehrlichman, both of whom were charged with lying to federal agencies. All five defendants are expected to take the stand in their own defense. But they will also expose themselves to the crisp cross-examination of the prosecution team, most notably Neal, 46; Richard Ben-Veniste, 31; and Jill Wine Volner, 31. Each defendant is in dire but different straits...
...afternoon ("I hate to wait a whole day for the concert to come," he explains). Horowitz has been known to be stiff early in a recital. "In the beginning, the fingers are cold. Warm water doesn't work. I have to warm up from inside." His crisp, classically elegant way with the opening work, the Sonata in F-Sharp Minor by Muzio Clementi, a contemporary of Beethoven's, made it clear that Horowitz was warm all over...
...warned by Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn for threatening a reporter. Pitcher Jim ("Catfish") Hunter was embroiled in a public contract dispute with Svengalian Owner Charles O. Finley, who was overruling Manager Alvin Dark by ordering last-minute lineup changes. So who destroyed the opposition four games to one with crisp, aggressive play? Of course...