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Fittingly, in a season when the Great White Way once again has an inner glow, this most Broadwayesque of musicals leads the way. It has been a season of powerhouse new plays by August Wilson, Herb Gardner, Neil Simon, Brian Friel and Richard Nelson. It has been a season of movie- and TV-star glitter -- Jessica Lange, Alec Baldwin and Amy Madigan in A Streetcar Named Desire; Glenn Close, Gene Hackman and Richard Dreyfuss in Ariel Dorfman's politically inflamed Death and the Maiden; fast-rising Larry Fishburne, direct from the angry film Boyz N the Hood to Wilson...
...Even amid the glow of his primary victories last week, Clinton rather plaintively acknowledged that he had to do a better job of convincing voters he is an honest man. Some well-wishers go further. "Clinton is going to have to find some forum in which he confronts these character questions directly," says former Democratic National Chairman John White. He has in mind something like John F. Kennedy's televised confrontation with Protestant ministers in Houston that defused concerns about his Roman Catholicism -- and its supposed influence on his policies -- early in the 1960 campaign. Natalie Davis, a political-science...
EDUCATION. By now it has become a much more than twice-told tale, but familiarity should not dull the glow of Clinton's greatest accomplishment. In 1978 one study found Arkansas' schools to be the worst in the nation, bar none. Realizing that Arkansas could never break out of its cycle of poverty and backwardness without a drastic improvement in schooling, the Governor appointed his wife Hillary to head a panel that would recommend reforms, and this was one task force that got results. Acting on its advice, Clinton set tough standards, which every school had to meet, instituted competency...
More recently, B6 has won favor as a relief for premenstrual syndrome. Vitamin A is touted as a rejuvenator by people who mistakenly believe that it, like its synthetic relative Retin-A, can give wrinkled, mottled skin that youthful rosy glow. "We never know what next year's fad is going to be," says Hathcock...
Once our eyes adjusted to the gloomy glow, we realized there were only two options--drinking in the Lobby Lounge, or walking right into Syatt's party, which lay in a kind of ominous purple darkness beyond the lounge...