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...annual ceremony, President Bush petted the seemingly uninterested bird and exercised his power of pardon, thus sparing one imposing tom the grim fate he might have known...
...novel and the noted film. The new version comes from a North American cast and creators, headed by composer John Kander, lyricist Fred Ebb and director Harold Prince -- the makers of Cabaret, which Kiss often recalls in its silvery visual shimmer, sexual ambiguity, bursts of surreality and blend of grim politics and show-biz glitter. But unlike Cabaret, which used a Berlin nightclub for satiric comment on the rise of the Nazis, Kiss looks to shadowy passages from old movies for sentimental uplift. They suggest that art, more than life, teaches decency and heroism...
...Washington last week prefigures the next four years, the nation is in for a spell of dizzying presidential activity. Clinton seemed everywhere at once. There he was at the White House sitting in the Chief Executive's wing chair by the fireplace. Moments later he was walking a grim inner-city block talking to valiant shop owners. At dawn the next day, he ordered a postjog cup of decaf at McDonald's before heading off to breakfast on Capitol Hill...
...South Korea two weeks ago, the couple hit the front pages looking sad and sour, under headlines like TORTURED and THE GLUMS. But palace aides deny this, and the conservative Daily Telegraph came to their support by showing some of the tightly cropped pictures beside the full originals. Many grim shots were taken at a war memorial. Others came when the pair were trying to read a detail map as intricacies of the Korean War fighting were being explained to them. Says a photographer who covered the trip: "What are you going to do when the editor says he wants...
Ironically enough, the family member most blessed with these qualities is Diana, the outsider now determined to follow her own path. Last month she opened a drug-rehab center in Brixton, a London slum that was the scene of grim riots in 1981. In a sense she was updating her grandmother-in-law's forays into blitz-ravaged areas. Despite the best efforts of the staff, not all the planned events came off, and the visit looked to come up short. Diana read the situation at once, and asked to hear more from the lusty gospel choir that had sung...