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...dialogue scenes fall flat--partly because of easily anticipated jokes and a few wooden characterizations--and by the second act the audience waits only for the next number to start. Several fine performances, though, keep this production of Company from being a skein of loosely-woven songs, the foremost among them Bonnie Lander's funny and beautifully-timed Joanne, the bitch-queen, older-and-wiser friend. Landers dominates every scene she is in but never hams it up, the only disappointment in her performance being her rendition of "The Ladies Who Lunch," a biting blast about bored wives that...
...commercial explosion of books and the constriction of a vigorous press (and indeed, the force which is slowly sapping us of many of our liberties) is the much-cliched, yet truly invidious spirit of big business. In the past, the average newspaper or magazine did not share the considerations foremost in the thinking of a large corporation. A publication was obliged to consider sales and profits for purposes of economic viability, so that it might continue to publish and prosper in more than financial aims. The desire to increase profit for profit's sake, to expand, to consolidate, to dominate...
...Secretary of State. The children, whose father was a Presbyterian minister in upstate New York, enjoyed a vaguely Kennedyesque upbringing that taught them sailing on Lake Ontario, the endurance of cold morning showers and furiously intense sibling competition. Foster, the eldest of the five children, was the foremost of the group, grave and sententious; he quoted William James at the age of ten. Allen, four years younger, was Byronically romantic and found a place for his temperament in intelligence work...
...Malcolm was first and foremost a teacher. At the end of his life he was talking about human rights, placing the situation of black Americans in the context of the world," Butler added...
...official. "Sadat's feelings seemed genuine and deep." At secluded Camp David, President Carter worked hard to "energize" Sadat, recalled one aide, reminding him that setbacks were inevitable and assuring him of U.S. support. Carter was effusive in his praise, even calling the Egyptian "the world's foremost peacemaker...