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None of them could have dreamed that Jesse Jackson, candidate for President of the U.S., would, 50 years later, set up his Iowa headquarters on that forgotten corner. What strange force brought a man of world renown, a fire- breathing latter-day populist, to that dot of earth, that little corner of a small town that was never witness to anything more grand than a merry-go- round, a high school band concert and an ice-cream social...
...lower floors could have an unimpeded view of the ocean, the dunes were simply bulldozed away. Since then, the ocean has come to see the tourists: beneath many buildings, pilings are exposed to the waves. At Garden City, S.C., just south of Myrtle Beach, where big condos dot the waterfront, crumbled seawalls and wrecked swimming pools testify to the power of storms unchecked by protective dunes...
...news programs professionally put together but low budget, low key and kind of boring. Instead of anchormen, there are news readers who do not thrust their personalities at the viewer. Only a few interviewers with outsize gall, like Sir Robin Day of the BBC with his signature polka-dot bow ties, are true celebrities (our unknighted Sir Ted Koppels and Sir Tom Brokaws must be content with honorary college degrees...
When the freshmen, led by stroke Duncan Wilson, came into view around the left-hand bend of the Thames, a dot on the horizon in the far distance, it was almost too much trouble to watch...
...sense of kinship with out-of-towners has not necessarily diminished New York's role as cultural arbiter. Just as Broadway hits go on tour, so off- Broadway successes dot the schedules of regional theaters a year or two later. In recent seasons, however, the cultural exchange has begun to work both ways, with regional theaters that have developed promising productions often joining forces with Manhattan institutions or producers. That is the case with two current off-Broadway delights: a lively feminist interpretation of the British social-class comedy Educating Rita by Chicago's Steppenwolf, the ensemble's sixth foray...