Word: forgiven
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Scientists can peer inside the body and brain, and measure wind speed on Mars. But the chemical reaction between performers onstage and an audience a few feet below defies explanation. If a show works, its flaws are easily forgiven and the faces out front light up with enthusiasm. If it does not, those onstage are subjected to the theatrical world's most terrifying noise: the sound of hundreds of yawns, politely stifled. So perhaps it is best not to spend too long trying to explain the attractions of the musical version of La Cage aux Folles, which opened...
...reasons, most of them delightful, Pete Rose, 42, is forgiven his own preoccupation with statistics and can even get away with saying, "I want to be the first one to go into the Hall unanimously." At the Phillies locker next door, Joe Morgan's eyebrows are dancing. "I hope you don't think you're as good as Willie Mays," he snaps, and Rose grins. Morgan is not the sort who will need to have his career notarized, but Rose takes these things seriously. "I disagree with waiting five years," he says, typically hurried...
Following a monthlong campaign whirl that ended with the thumping re-election of Margaret Thatcher, Britons could be forgiven last week for dearly wishing a respite from political news. It was not to be. Not only did the Prime Minister continue to tidy up her Cabinet, but a pair of opposition leaders, Laborite Michael Foot, 69, and the Social Democrat Roy Jenkins, 62, decided to call it quits. As members of the Liberal Party began grumbling about their alliance with the Social Democratic Party (S.D.P.), their popular chief, David Steel, hinted he might also bow out before the next election...
...mind. Glenn is for nuclear power and says so in the face of the fiercest opposition. He publicly calls for the Israelis to stop building more settlements on the West Bank. He has defied organized labor by voting against its cherished picketing legislation, and union leaders have never really forgiven him. Glenn has uncommon political courage. Interest groups, no matter how sophisticated and strident, have learned that turning up the pressure only makes Glenn hang tougher. He cannot be intimidated...
...there then to support my friends the writers, the students and statesmen of the Prague Spring. I heard them give thanks, at least, for their few months of freedom as night fell once more upon them; the night of Kafka, where nothing is remembered but nothing is forgiven...