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...shows with filmed interviews, she on what thrills, he on forged wills. The zest of MetroNews comes from the ham and hard-boiled-egg match-up of extrovert Anchor Man Charles Rowe, 37, and Reporter-Inquisitor Charles Ashman, 40. A bionic-perfect baritone, Rowe is the ideal foil for Ashman, a sardonic "everyman" who shows up each night with yesterday's stubble. Operating in a seedy city-room set torn from The Front Page, they go about earning the sobriquet given them by miffed competitors: the "outhouse news...
...variety of roles--these crucial transitions are too often undelineated. The court speeches (the easiest and most comic roles) are inexcusably weak. Claude Sloan, David Brain Wilkins, and Don Gillespie (as the Missionary, the Judge, and the Governor) merge into one spewing monotone; the Queen should be a mannered foil to Virtue, but L. Maxine Freeman lacks the necessary elegant pretension. Paul Brasuell shines as her valet, simpering and swaying his way to the brightest moments of the show...
...Perfect Foil. The left is still unable to figure out exactly how conservative Carter really is, but that puzzlement shrinks next to the threat of Jackson. Even within big labor, which is still mostly opposed to Carter, there are several liberal unions that take a favorable view of him. Bill Welsh, political director for the American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees Union, believes that while Carter still has not passed the liberal test, he has found the perfect foil in Jackson...
Today's taste tends toward 19th century folk art represented by some delectable objects in the Whitney. The most splendid "unofficial" sculpture is a veritable New Jerusalem of junk and old furniture sheathed in gold and silver foil, the Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly, begun in 1950 in a Washington garage by a black janitor named James Hampton, and left unfinished on his death in 1964. It was meant for Christ at his Second Coming and may well be the finest work of visionary religious art produced by an American...
...Falls Church, Va., another division, Melpar, builds radar jammers and pilotless "drone" aircraft that can be programmed to fly over an enemy's turf, photograph installations and drop bombs. Another division in Dallas makes high-technology civilian products, including tiny devices that can be used to foil bank robbers. Placed in a teller's drawer, the device will trigger an alarm when a teller removes the last bill in a stack, thus reducing pressure...