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...Fritz Hollings looks like he's sucking hard on a piece of sour candy. His opponent, Bob Inglis, is explaining to a group of seniors how the budget can be "technically balanced" without actually being balanced at all. Inglis, 39, a Republican Congressman, is measured, orderly and inoffensive, his hands cupped almost in prayer as he pads through the concept. Suddenly Hollings comes awake in a tumble of growls and bellows. "This is monkey talk," he says. The tax cuts the Republican promises will sap the Social Security trust fund. "They're raidin' the bloomin' fund," he blurts. Later Hollings...
...though, he has pulled off the trick of earning a reputation as a fiscal conservative while delivering federal goodies to South Carolina: money to deepen the Charleston Harbor, new veterans' clinics and a map full of roads and bridges. "Whenever anybody needed anything, they came to ol' Fritz," he boasts...
Such a performance obviously garners an encore, and the audience actually brought Shaham back for two--one, a joyfully exaggerated rendition of Rossini's The Barber of Seville (think "Fi-ga-ro!"), the other a surprisingly sedate charmer (arranged by one of the most famous of all violin virtuosi, Fritz Kreisler) entitled The Waltzing Dog--both showing Shaham's ever-present humor. All in all Gil Shaham is truly to be congratulated for a successful glimpse at the world of the virtuoso...
PANAMSAT Its satellite goes on the fritz, and the pagers went off. America rejoiced in its beeplessness...
World War I, with its machines that dealt death rather than hope, further darkened the view of things to come. In 1927 the famous German moviemaker Fritz Lang released Metropolis, the idea for which came to him when he first saw, from shipboard, the glaring lights and tall buildings of Manhattan. (The film became a favorite of Hitler's.) Set in the year 2000, Metropolis shows plutocrats living in idle pleasure while workers slave away underground until a spectacular rebellion sets them free. This was reminiscent of H.G. Wells' 1895 dystopian fantasy, The Time Machine, in which a subhuman race...