Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THOUGH the first musical for the relatively new Huntington Company, the production sports a professional polish. Delivering a baritone as rich as his impeccable surroundings, Rex Hays makes a commanding Baron, carrying himself like a true mythical aristocrat and offering entertainment fit for any peer. Even to, Hays cannot rival the performance of Mitchell Greenberg as Gaston, who makes even simple, stereotypical conquest seem lovable if not admirable. Breathing too little personality into her stereotype-fashional character, Donalyn Petrucci offers neither the melodious delivery of Hays nor the charisma of Gaston...
...ignore the preposterous image of an illiterate soldier poking his or her finger at a pretty, multicolored computer graphic to launch our country's most expensive high-tech armaments. Concentrate instead on the whole new class of desperately poor, conveniently patriotic citizens who could then be pronounced fit for service...
...Politburo and a secretary of the Communist Party's Central Committee, which comprises more than 300 members. The importance of having those two titles became clear when Andropov was hastily made a party secretary as a prelude to assuming the top job. The only men who fit the bill at the moment are two of the youngest Politburo members, Grigori Romanov, 61, and Mikhail Gorbachev, 53. U.S. analysts believe that Gorbachev is now firmly established as the No. 2 man in the Kremlin. Thus, despite the political sclerosis, there are indications that the Politburo may be getting ready...
...drifts into terrorist activity, an apparent return to the political subject matter of Lessing's earlier work. Despite "a few very nice fan letters," she has no plans to resurrect Jane Somers in print, though fans and critics will undoubtedly race to read the pseudonymous works and fit them into Lessing's oeuvre. The irony of that does not escape the author. Were it not for her unmasking, Lessing points out, "poor old Jane Somers could have faded away forever...
Maddox, who says he has no official title because he does not think titles fit well with the "low-key" image of the group he is reviving, said the "only purpose [of the Lost City] is to help people to enjoy themselves and music...