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FICTION 1. The Aquitaine Progression, Ludlum (1 last week) 2. The Haj, Uris (2) 3. Heretics of Dune, Herbert (3) 4. The Butter Battle Book, Seuss (4) 5. Warday, Strieberand Kunetka (5) 6. Pet Sematary, King (6) 7. Descent from Xanadu, Robbins (7) 8. Fling, Beck and Massman 9. Smart Women, Blume (9) 10. The Danger, Francis...
...late oil magnate J. Paul, who is estimated to be worth over $2.2 billion, flew "some friends," as he put it, from San Francisco to New York last week for an advance bash (he actually passes the half-century mark next week. The highlight of the three-day fling was an evening at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, where Mezzo Soprano Mignon Dunn performed the New York City premiere of Amateur Composer Getty's The White Election. The 32-song cycle won accolades from the audience as well as Getty himself, who called it his "biggest moment...
...Dresser cannot fill its noble Shakespearean outline. Harwood would have been well advised to stop short of his last-act fling at tragedy and rest on his strength, which is for comically melodramatic commentary on the vagaries and excesses of the theatrical life. Still, he has wisely turned his original vehicle from a unicycle into a bicycle built for two, and Courtenay and Finney give it a thrilling ride. -By Richard Schickel
...absence of a clear interpretation of the text by the director, most actors suffer from a lack of confidence. Most lines are delivered too quickly. Uncertain about their characters, or about their characters' relationships with other characters, many actors fling their lines away rather than directing them at the audience or another character. Robert Stattel as the Duke is the worst offender in this regard, often literally spitting out his lines; since the Duke has several long and emotional scenes, the results range from something resembling a temper tantrum to outright melodrama. A similar lack of control hampers the performances...
...GReenham Common protestors have vowed to fling themselves in the path of the missiles mobile launchers should they venture from the base NATO plans called for the missiles to be dispersed around the countryside...