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Lawsuits pose continuing financial problems for the family, but the Buckleys are far from broke. Great Elm, however, is no longer the same. Its gracious 18th century mansion is being cut into a complex of fine condominiums. Priced from $175,000 to $200,000 each, they will, if sold, help ease the burdens imposed by the SEC's crackdown on the family's businesses...
...talented placekicker and striker, Papagianis terrorized Harvard pool tables with his $125 cue. Perhaps his finest moment was the day he and a friend "won" the cue of the infamous Minnesota Fats. In a fateful showdown in a St. Louis pool hall. Papagianis' companion beat the great Fats. A gracious loser always. Fats threw his stick at them and stormed...
When Fenwick first came to Congress in 1975, she took Washingtonians by surprise. How could they know that the elegant, gracious Mrs. Fenwick was also an outspoken, steel-strapped pipe-smoker? As Bella Abzug told her, "Everyone expected you to be an uptight dowager." Perhaps Lacey Davenport, her caricature in the Doonesbury comic strip, explains best what Capitol Hill denizens really found. Charming and upbeat, she was unafraid to tangle with the personalities that might have had the power to end her career...
...sleep. How such notions could possibly threaten her, we do not know; nor are we shown why she is so enamoured of Marion. For Marianna seems a petty and spoiled young woman, a willful coquette, whose illness results from self-delusion, not from the spiritual manipulation of a gracious ghost. Marion's uneasiness seems more tangible than that of Marianna. Apparently, he seeks revenge against the social demons of fifty years ago which forbade his marriage to Marianna's great aunt Theresa and which, in turn, led to his death...
...current revival at Manhattan's Circle in the Square Theater is never more than adequate. Returning to the stage after an absence of 17 years, Joanne Woodward is gracious, kindly and attractive but a trifle too effusive and lacking in the magnetism that would drive two men to distraction...