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These three faces of Tom Waits are what make Big Time more complicated to watch than a straightforward concert movie, such as Let's Spend the Night Together. He seems to be trying to figure out which of the three he is: the dreaming outsider, writing down lyrics fresh from the insanity of his lonely life; the cynical salesman-performer hyping himself into the big time; or a passionate performer who's kept his purity even in success. If you know Waits only for his music (an obviously ridiculous "only" considering how long he's been putting out good albums...
...writers, there often is one, and it is the second act of Long Day's Journey into Night: a downward spiral of drink, disillusion and self-destructiveness. Jean Stafford followed just such a pattern, all the more regrettably because her first act was so full of energy % and promise. Fresh from a Colorado upbringing, she married Poet Robert Lowell and at 29 published the best seller Boston Adventure. Other marriages and other books followed, and so did poor health and a passel of troubles, many self-inflicted. By the time her Collected Stories won the Pulitzer Prize...
...attacks on Butia and other Kurdish villages began three weeks ago, and have prompted fresh denunciations of the government of President Saddam Hussein for using chemical weapons in violation of international law. The assaults are part of a drive that has virtually crushed a long-simmering rebellion of the Kurds and punished Kurdish guerrillas -- known as pesh mergas, or "those who face death" -- for collaborating with the enemy during Iraq's eight-year war with Iran. When Iran agreed to a truce on Aug. 20, the Iraqis began to move against the Kurds...
What is unfortunate is that television and the daily newspapers, forced to produce a Bush and Dukakis story each day, feed the illusion that the candidates are conducting a dialogue with the electorate. Sound bites aside, little that either contender is saying provides a fresh glimpse of what he might do in office. Bush's two major recent policy addresses -- on the environment and on foreign-policy goals -- were recycled versions of earlier speeches gussied up with new applause lines. Dukakis won front-page headlines for his innovative, if poorly detailed, proposal to allow college students to repay their loans...
...really fresh and really anxious," she says of her preparations for upcoming confrontations with a strong Soviet, Tatyana Samolenko, and Rumanian Paula Ivan. There will be no rematch with South Africa-born Budd. Slaney's Olympic nemesis was tastelessly hounded into retirement earlier this year by foes of apartheid. Slaney recently has been on antibiotics for an unspecified illness, but her once fierce confidence has returned, this time tempered with the realization that dreams are oh so fragile. "Cross my fingers," she has been saying often these pre-Olympic days. "Knock on wood...