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...They reveal terrific artists--Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Bessie Smith, Bing Crosby, Ethel Merman, Ginger Rogers--in their early prime, making the music that made them famous. The tunes sound fresh, the interpretations supple. A melody can suddenly improv into Rhapsody in Blue or Chopin's Funeral March or 'Deed I Do. Half a century before rap, Louis Armstrong was already sampling...
...Dole sounded pretty happy when it was all over, chortling like a kid about keeping a secret, doing a good deed, being "back in the game." It certainly was a stunning way to come out of retirement. By lending Newt Gingrich $300,000 at 10% interest to pay off an ethics-committee fine, Dole had preserved Gingrich's job as House Speaker (at least for now), done his party a favor and maybe even saved a marriage along...
That might have been the end of that, except that when you shoot to the top of the pundit food chain just a year after shedding your lawyer's pinstripes without any tedious apprenticeships, no good deed goes unchallenged. Jeffrey Hart, the Review's faculty adviser, sent a memo to the Weekly Standard saying that Ingraham had some nerve dragging the Review into her "phony political confession" given that no one else there held, as she did, "the most extreme antihomosexual views imaginable." He says she went so far as to avoid a local eatery where she feared the waiters...
...mental confusion arising from the tag-team influence of socialist-atheist Dad and Bible-thumping Mom lead Alan to worship the mystical horse-deity Equus (Latin for "horse"). It is the intersection of reality with Alan's fantasies that leads the emotionally undeveloped boy to commit such a ghastly deed. As the play progresses, however, it becomes less about Alan and more a commentary on the restrictive conventions of normality that "society" imposes. Dr. Dysart questions his own mission in light of Alan's passions. Through a series of well-written but somewhat overly weighty monologues, he challenges the audience...
...have had a glimpse of heaven--a near-death experience--and lived to tell about it if we had taken the time to listen. For thousands of years, these people have told us of meeting loved ones, of undergoing instantaneous, panoramic life reviews of every thought and deed, of the effects of such things on themselves and others, and encountering the Light, which has transformed their lives. BRUCE J. HORACEK Omaha, Nebraska...