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When Neil Simon's 23rd play, Broadway Bound, opened in New York City last week, TIME Theater Critic William A. Henry III judged it the best American play of the 1980s. He happily proclaims that news in his cover profile of the playwright, which was written with reports from Los Angeles Correspondent Elaine Dutka. Says Henry: "There is a saying in the theater that there's nothing wrong with Broadway three hits won't cure. In any season that Neil Simon brings out a play, the problem is one-third solved...
None came. The Senator spoke knowingly and graciously through dinner, but he did not even reveal what Colonel North was wearing. Nor will he. There is an iron discipline beneath the rounded Georgia verbs that Nunn uses so precisely. He is as stern a critic as any fellow Democrat of Ronald Reagan's performances these days, but he has not called on the President to fire anybody in the White House ("That's up to the President"). When asked by a reporter if Reagan's staff had been coaching the President to lie to the press and the American people...
Perot's sudden resignation from the GM board and from the chairmanship of EDS created an instant uproar and raised new uncertainties about the future of the troubled company. Wall Streeters questioned the economic wisdom of GM's paying so much money to jettison an in-house critic. Pundits quipped that Smith had paid a hefty "ransom" to free himself from his adversary?a reference to last week's revelations of Perot's financial support for National Security Council efforts to ransom American hostages held in Lebanon. One of Perot's assistants dubbed the GM payoff "hush-mail." Shareholders, meanwhile...
...that Musgrave brought to bear on U.S. economic thinking, Poterba said.“That was a perspective that was somewhat different from what most U.S. economists were using,” Poterba said.Concerned with questions of how to set up an equitable tax system, Musgrave was a vocal critic of President Reagan’s conservative economic program.In 1982, Musgrave, with 33 other economists, sent a letter to the White House criticizing Reagan’s economic policy as “extremely regressive in its impact on our society, redistributing wealth and power from the middle-class...
...perfect match for the Internet, which excels at reaching across geographic boundaries and making obscure information accessible. Today websites for wine lovers are popping up faster than you can say Gewrztraminer. The big ones like eRobertParker.com the online home of the industry's most powerful wine critic, and WineSpectator.com the Web sibling of the magazine, offer an abundance of reviews, ratings and other features. But there are plenty of less famous wine sites that are also worth savoring...