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...produced last season on Broadway by Circle-in-the-Square, Morning, Noon and Night consisted of plays by Israel Horovitz, Terence McNally and Leonard Melfi. Collectively these one-acters made up the finest evening of new American drama of the last theatre season and should work well...
TRUE GRIT. John Wayne has his finest hour in this cornball western comedy. His genial, self-satirizing performance as an aging lawman proves that his nickname, "the Duke," has seldom been more...
TRUE GRIT. John Wayne has his finest hour in this cornball western comedy. His genial, self-satirizing performance as an aging lawman proves that his nickname, Duke, has seldom been more...
...cathedral was built by a warrior-prince named Andrei Bogoliubsky in 1158. Prince Andrei, seeking to wrest power from the boyars and make Vladimir instead of Kiev the capital of Russia, intended that the cathedral would be not only a metropolitan see but the finest jewel in his kingdom. He lavished much of his treasury on it, importing European architects, stonemasons and carvers as well as Byzantine painters and craftsmen. Though Prince Andrei failed in his fight against the boyars, who succeeded in murdering him in 1174, his majestic monument stood, only to be destroyed by fire a few years...
Washington Lawyer Clark Clifford is no novice at dealing with Presidents. Harry Truman, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson have all relied on his discreet and diplomatic talents. Still, Clifford may well have had his finest hour when he prepared the present military budget while serving as L.B.J.'s Secretary of Defense. As one Pentagon official tells the story, an aide hurried into Clifford's office with the glad news that the year's budget would be $1 billion less than anticipated, and suggested that the Secretary call the President. "He certainly will be pleased," the aide said...