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...million U.S. Pavilion suffers from similar mediocrity. It is a six-story structure, designed by Atlanta Architects Finch Alexander Barnes Rothschild & Paschal Inc., that vaguely resembles the Pompidou Center in Paris-with a fig leaf. Pompidou's daringly exposed ducts and pipes are coyly muted. This federal contribution houses energy exhibits. One possible post-fair use for the pavilion is as a University of Tennessee energy research center. But now that acute energy concerns are drowned in the oil glut, other uses also are under discussion...
Sugar Ray Leonard battered Bruce Finch to the canvas three times and stopped him in the third round last night to retain the undisputed welterweight boxing championship of the world...
...Muppets and Men (Knopf; 180 pages; $27.50) by Christopher Finch shows, in text and pictures, how that bizarre band of aliens, the Muppets, and their syndicated TV show are put together. No fan need worry that such behind-the-scenes scrutiny will spoil the fun. Knowing that a favorite character is composed largely of polyurethane foam, synthetic-pile fabrics and a couple of Ping Pong balls only seems part of the fun that these creatures and the inspired Muppeteers generate...
Seen through these photographs, the staging of The Muppet Show looks complex, sophisticated and just as zany as what appears on the screen. People strain to make their Muppets look comfortable; it is not easy being Gonzo. Author Finch devotes a little too much space to the human guests who have appeared on the program. Those singers, movie stars, comedians and classical artists are all well and good, but the book belongs to Kermit, Miss Piggy, Fozzie, Scooter, Statler and Waldorf...
...Atticus Finch in the 1963 movie To Kill a Mockingbird, Gregory Peck captured well the kindly, yet determined sensibilities of a rural Southern lawyer. The actor has moved north to Gettysburg, Pa., for his next role, in The Blue and the Gray, an eight-hour CBS TV mini-series to be aired next March. Queuing up in a distinguished line that includes Walter Huston, Henry Fonda, Raymond Massey and Hal Holbrook, Peck, 65, is taking up stovepipe and chin whiskers to portray Abraham Lincoln. "I'm in seven scenes," says Greg, "but I only get to speak in five...