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...demands of the times. Celebrated in a recent Esquire article as "the neoliberals," they take as their manifesto Sen. Paul Tsongas's The Road From Here and point to Sen. Gary Hart as a possible standard-bearer in the 1984 presidential race. These two youthful and appealing gentlemen, joined by junior senators such as New Jersey's Bill Bradley, representatives like Colorado's Timothy Wirth and Missouri's Richard Gephardt, and heavy weights from academe and high finance--MIT economist Lester Thurow and New York investment banker Felix Rohatyn for example--are beginning to exert a strong influence...
...Gentlemen," he told some visitors that year, "the Depression is over...
...exhilarating film experience. After the Napoleon coup, movie wags were wondering which charismatic dictator Coppola would bring to New York in early 1982. Now they know. Frederic Forrest may be romancing Nastassia Kinski onscreen, but center stage will again be occupied by the One and Only. Lay-deez and Gentlemen . . . Francis Ford Patton Bonaparte Coppola! -By Richard Corliss. Reported by Martha Smilgis/San Francisco
...began over a cool brew in a warm tavern. Young gentlemen at the College of William and Mary in revolutionary Virginia drew up plans for a society of good fellowship and spirited debate. (Sample topic: "Whether Polygamy is a dictate of Nature or not.") They devised a secret handshake and an initiation rite. The group, in fact, might have ended up as just one more fraternity but for a sober motto-and philosophy-based on the Greek letters ΦBK : "love of wisdom the guide of life." The Virginia chapter collapsed after only five years, in 1781, but not before...
...sophomore from Hingham said later) with 23 seconds left, then stopped Mark Fusco from the point 12 seconds later ("Concentration," he said about that one). The crowd was chanting "Mc-Car-thy, Mc-Car-thy" at that point, but it might as well have been "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen...