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Similarly, Terry Ray Robinson as Toby O'Nottobee has a strappling and graceful character that tends to embarrass many of the more wooden folks around him. He, too has a singing voice you can hear--particularly in the show's best number. "Rain of Terror" Robinson's dazzling song-and-dance accompanied by a nifty trumpet solo by William Saleeby, makes as all-the-more painful contrast with the clinkers that surround...
...full content of the Kennedy tapes may not be known for some time. The Kennedy family gave the recordings to the Kennedy Library under a deed banning public disclosure of any transcripts that might embarrass a taped participant about personal matters while that individual remains alive. Thus the library staff is expected to return to the family any tapes unrelated to the "business" of the presidency. What Jack said to Jackie may never be revealed. The tapes dealing with official matters are being transcribed. They will be screened for national security considerations before being released, some of them later this...
...answers to these questions would probably embarrass the nation's lumbering military bureaucracy. But more important as far as the politics of registration is concerned is the realization that regardless of official rhetoric, the president views registration as a convenient saber to rattle at the Soviets, much in the same way Carter did in 1980. Growing European uneasiness over American inconsistency in international affairs only encouraged Reagan further, according to some White House aides...
During every Harvard home game, spectators may enter a half-court shooting contest sponsored by Crimson Travel. Mr. Henry Zimmerman '25, Harvard's widely recognized Most Loyal Fan of the Century, chooses three names from a cardboard box, and three people usually embarrass themselves by tossing airballs...
...desperate to regain their credibility. "The society did not collapse," says Bertram Brown, a terrorism consultant for California's Rand Corp. "Thus they had to leap the firebreak to internationalism by kidnaping an American." Adds Franco Ferracuti, a Rome University professor of criminology: "The Red Brigades want to embarrass the U.S., to undermine NATO and, not incidentally, to reestablish themselves as a force to be reckoned with...