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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Stanley Kowalski without the sex appeal, the female a masochistic Judy absorbing too many Punches. So it is a tonic to meet the Italian Americans in John Patrick Shanley's plays (Danny and the Deep Blue Sea) and films (Moonstruck). The residents of Shanley's Little Italy dare to express their feelings in street poetry whose melodic line is closer to Verdi's than to Bon Jovi's. In his new off-Broadway play Shanley goes further, announcing that these days it is the women who have aerobicized their hearts and the men who are love-sick. Shanley knows that...
...Koppel, he might have been prepared for the tough, relentless probing. But his inquisitor was a precocious blond cherub of 13, Jonathan Zachary, who delivered his questions with a slight preadolescent lisp. Zachary is one of 16 youngsters featured in a new TV show called Children's Express News Magazine, an offshoot of Children's Express news service, which has been disarming public figures since it was founded for kids by New York lawyer Robert Clampitt...
Founder Clampitt's original plan was to create a news organization "by children, for children" offering features on doll hospitals and white-water rafting. Then, during the 1976 Democratic Convention, the fledgling Children's Express scooped the national press corps by breaking the news that Walter Mondale would be Jimmy Carter's running mate. "My ideas were totally changed after that," recalls Clampitt. "Suddenly, it was about children taking responsibility -- about real-world journalism...
...this book if you're looking for some great football action. Instead, Byrne captures all the nervous suspense which takes place in the boardrooms. Byrne paints the eerie picture of how multimillionaires Donald Trump, owner of the New Jersey Generals, and William J. Oldenburg, owner of the Los Angeles Express, committed the young league to field teams in direct competition with the National Football League...
...Cambridge ballot. Of course, it does. The residents of Cambridge are very much involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The tax dollars of Cambridge residents, too, are given away to Israel each year. As American citizens, we, the people of Cambridge, have not only the right to express our opinion about the misuse of our tax dollars--we also have that responsibility. It is true that Israel, as an independent country, cannot be forced to cease its human rights violations. However, let us not forget that America too is an independent country, and while we may not be able...