Word: grandly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...LATEST VERSION of this game has been played out over the last few months, with the grand finale occuring last week. The president failed pathetically at his last news conference in November. Unsure of himself, unknowledgable of the facts, befuddled by a press corps which asked him questions, Reagan was down again. Once again, as questions of his health surfaced, the president disappeared...
That rapid-fire sequence occupies roughly half of the first act, which is nearly two hours long. The show continues at a pell-mell pace but shifts from incident to soliloquy -- seven characters have long solos, most on a bare stage -- and to grand effects, including a doomed 1832 uprising complete with six tons of barricades, eventually heaped with the bodies of the rebels. The nature of the intended revolution remains more than a little sketchy, as does the alliance that binds together the likes of the streetwise urchin Gavroche (Braden Danner) and the idealistic student Marius (David Bryant...
...grand night for singing. Bob Dylan wrapped his angry adenoids around the Gershwin ballad Soon, and Madeline Kahn, Maureen McGovern and Julia Migenes ganged up gorgeously on Someone to Watch Over Me. Last week's gala tribute to George and Ira at the Brooklyn Academy of Music provided a pretty fine evening of dance as well, with Mikhail Baryshnikov, Harold Nicholas, Gregg Burge and the Mutt-and-Jeff tandem of Tommy Tune and Drew Barrymore finding new steps for some unforgettable old melodies. Nor would anyone think of shooting the piano players. Michael Tilson Thomas opened with Rhapsody in Blue...
...request for delay. He had a harder time convincing the Senators. "The independent counsel wishes the committees didn't exist," says a source close to the Senate panel. "We wish he didn't exist. The Congress wants to let in the sunlight. The independent counsel has to work in grand jury secrecy...
Some students said they think that the grand jury's decision to drop charges proves that there is little evidence for the Brown women's claims. "I think that if they got off, [the alleged assaults] must have been a total sham," said one student who wished to remain unidentified...