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...like it, you have to sustain the reader's interest. Two of the most delightful evenings I ever had in the theater were at the English production of The Importance of Being Earnest and a revival of Pal Joey. Both times I had a 102° fever, all of which proves that if something is good, it has nothing to do with how the critic feels." What disturbs Kronenberger about Broadway today is that it "has become so dependent on adaptations as opposed to original plays. Adaptations almost always lose something. It's like cutting up a sofa...
Last week, following the première of Elegy for Young Lovers, Henze took to his bed with a high fever. "It's the anticlimax he suffers after each première," reported his secretary. "Every time, he thinks he has made it, and then his sensitive nature tells...
...Detroiters listened. Their big-league ball club, moribund for the past 15 years, was suddenly the top team in baseball. Last week the Tigers split four games with the New York Yankees, swept three from the Baltimore Orioles, and moved five games in front of the American League. Pennant fever raged in Detroit...
...appears to have had no complaints, and was probably genuinely devoted to her-proving once again that, in certain cases, love has nothing to do with fidelity. One day in 1807, Adrienne de La Fayette was seized by a high fever. "I am going to die," she told her husband. "Have you any grudge against...
...America's gambling fever has never been confined to games of chance. After the 1794 yellow fever epidemic, bets were made on the number of the dead. Bettors so pressured steamboat captains to race one another that passengers bribed, pleaded and fought for berths farthest away from the boilers. "Bet-a-Million" Gates, who would bet on anything, used to moisten a lump of sugar and bet $1,000 a fly on how many flies would alight on it. In 1944, General Eisenhower bet ?5 that his troops would reach the German border by Christmas-but lost. Al Capone...