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...They think they have learned my formula and can now do away with my presence," taunted Menotti in 1991. Ciao, Gian Carlo: they have, they did, and now they are getting along very nicely without you. Indeed, as painful as it was, Menotti's departure is probably the best thing that could have happened to the festival, which is currently in the midst of its 1995 edition. Under its formidable new general manager, Milton Rhodes, a native South Carolinian and former president of the American Council for the Arts, and with enthusiastic support from Charleston's feisty mayor, Joseph...
...sequel to Richard Ford's highly acclaimed 1986 novel "The Sportswriter" picks up loquacious narrator-hero Frank Bascombe six years after the previous book left off. The new book, says TIME critic Paul Gray, repeats the effective formula of "The Sportswriter:" a flurry of intense activity in the present combined with Frank's ruminations on a past that still troubles him and whose meaning he would like to pin down. Unfortunately, he never does, says Gray, and in the end Frank "remains a bigger mystery to the reader than he is to himself."Previous TIME DailyCampaign...
...Hard With a vengeance" wisely keeps some of the formula that makes its predecessors so wonderful, but still introduces enough new twists to make itself independent (it even has an elevator sence of its own). The movie brings back John Clan (Bruce Willis), veteran New York detective and hero of terrorist incidents at Nakitomi Plaza in Los Angeles and Dulles Airport in Washington, D.C.. McClane is having marital difficulties, not having talked to his wife in a year, and is "one step" from being an alcoholic. He is also on suspension from the police force...
Grisham's fame and fortune are based on the law. The son of an itinerant construction worker, he graduated from the University of Mississippi law school and practiced criminal law for nine years in Southaven, outside Memphis. The experience gave him his particular take on an age-old formula: little guy triumphs over big guy. Or over the feds, the Klan, the Mafia, the cia, the fbi-or, in The Rainmaker, the insurance industry...
...Larry Jones, went on local TV to ask for volunteers and donations for the victims and rescue workers, hundreds of cars began filing through the parking lot of the company's warehouse, the drivers asking what was needed and offering plastic bags and boxes full of everything from infant formula to flashlight batteries, food and paper goods. A sporting- goods store in Stillwater shipped every single one of its kneepads to the rescuers scouring the wreckage. Nearby Tinker Air Force Base sent a truckload of helmet lights...