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...Music by Cy Coleman...
...lives on the wrong side of the tracks after the tracks are torn up? Neil Simon has reworked and revived his 1962 musicomedy farce, complete with Cy Coleman's winningly melodic score, but he cannot restore its sociological geography. His brassy heroine, the evocatively named Belle Poitrine (Mary Gordon Murray), a non-lady who is a bona fide tramp, wants to acquire culture, fame, wealth and social acceptance. In 1982, culture is a two-syllable word that has disappeared from most vocabularies, and a bona fide tramp has a hammerlock on fame, wealth and social acceptance, provided she selects...
...court decision denying it tax exemptions. The Justice Department had argued against the university, but is now asking the court to drop the case be cause of Reagan's directive. The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law also said it would contest the new tax poli cy in federal district court in Washington. That court issued a permanent injunction in 1971 forbidding tax benefits to discriminatory schools in Mississippi, and noted that the principle was meant to apply to other states as well...
...prodigious year for the Los Angeles Dodgers' pitching prodigy Fernando Valenzuela, 21. In 1981 the chunky lefthander won a World Series victory; National League Rookie of the Year laurels; the Cy Young Award for the league's most outstanding pitcher; and to cap it all, the hand of Linda Margarita Burgos, an elementary schoolteacher from Merida, Mexico. Valenzuela, suited up in a black tuxedo, and Linda, dressed in a $3,000 gown, took their vows in the bride's home town. Valenzuela sneaked into the church by a back entrance to avoid a mob of well-wishers...
...Three pitchers have won back-to-back Cy Young Awards. For ten points, name all three...