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BUDDY. The London hit, based on the ordinary life and surefire songs of short- lived rock genius Buddy Holly, plays at San Francisco's Golden Gate Theater through Oct. 14, prior to Broadway, with an American, Paul Hipp, reprising his West End title role...
Yeah, he's right, I guess. Bill Buckner tookresponsibility for getting nutmegged in the WorldSeries. Jimmy Swaggart took responsibility for hissins before the Lord. Ronald Reagan tookresponsibility for Iran-gate. Well, at least heshould have. And I even recall a scrawny kid namedGrunwald blaming himself for blowing his highschool soccer team's 26-game winning streak bymissing an unmissable breakaway, but that'sanother column altogether...
...East. For the other five months, though, the Mets have played just .500 ball, allowing the Pittsburgh Pirates -- a team too young to bathe in flop sweat -- nearly unimpeded access to first place. In the N.L. West, the Cincinnati Reds, champions-designate since their springtime sprint from the gate, curled up in a summerlong slumber. Only the mediocrity of their California pursuers -- the Dodgers, Giants and Padres -- clinched the division for the Reds and ensured Cincinnati's being remembered for something this fall besides an art- as-obscenity trial...
...future wanted to see for himself how arrivals from the Old World were ushered into the new one. He found the process strangely unceremonious. "On they go, from this pen to that," he wrote, "pen by pen, towards a desk at a little metal wicket -- the gate of America...
Amid the run-down villas in East Berlin's once genteel Pankow district, the lovely stucco house at Am Iderfenngraben 23 looks decidedly out of place. The wrought-iron gate is freshly painted; the clay roof shingles gleam in the afternoon sun. Rudolf Musch, a construction engineer, has spent most of his savings renovating the 1920s home since his family moved in eleven years ago. But the Musches, who pay $92 a month in rent for their 1,658-sq.-ft. space, may soon find themselves on the street. Hilmar Schneider, the owner of the house, who left the East...