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...children's entertainment that will knock you out with its sophistication. Larson was not aiming to educate here nor to be hip--don't expect to see the wee stars exploring a divey apartment with a bathtub in the living room. He was only trying, it seems, to breezily delight his young audience. And that he has certainly accomplished. --By Ginia Bellafante
...culture clash. Crown Prince Felipe of Spain, a mucho eligible bachelor, has been hanging out lately with an American lass, Giselle Howard--to the delight of Spanish paparazzi. One of them, Carlos Arriazu, was overeager, and is being charged with illegal wiretapping after he was caught in a sting operation while trying to tap Howard's phone. Arriazu says he didn't know wiretapping was illegal in America...
America could be considered a terrorist's delight. In New York City alone, there are numerous densely populated areas where an individual could plant a bomb with little or no difficulty. But this unfortunate truth must to some degree be accepted or the result will be a police state that dramatically infringes on the rights of the people...
...with 8,891 points at a meet in Talence, France, but no amount of points could make people forget his zero at the Olympic trials. He and Reebok parted company, then he signed on with Nike. Even without the gold to his name, O'Brien is a sponsor's delight, with his radiant good looks--coppery skin, sculpted 6-ft. 2-in., 185-lb. body with an unimaginable 3% of body fat--and affable nature. He already has deals to the tune of $600,000 with Foot Locker, Visa, Ray Ban, Xerox, Juice Bowl and Fuji Film, with bonuses that...
...last question: Who has learned that size doesn't count as much as insouciance? Why, Andrew Lloyd Webber. His By Jeeves, a radical overhaul of his 1975 flop show, is a delight in miniature. Based on P.G. Wodehouse's tales of the supreme upper-class twit Bertie Wooster and his man Jeeves, a Zen master of irony, By Jeeves has a blitheness that makes the audience feel as if it's on a holiday from the huffery and puffery of the Boublil-Schonberg musicals (and of Sir Andrew's overblown Sunset Blvd...