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...delighted in the annual spectacle of stars born and reborn. Cecil Fielder, exiled to Japan last year, signs with Detroit and threatens to become the first American Leaguer to bop 50 home runs since Mantle and Maris in '61. Dave Justice, toiling in Triple A, gets promoted to the haggard Atlanta Braves in mid-May and hits 28 home runs: out of nowhere, into orbit. The arms of half the Dodgers' pitchers fall off, but the slim, steely mound grace of rookie Ramon Martinez helps sustain Los Angeles in a last-gasp pennant race...
...rehearsal session is devoted to a little nifty called Going Away Party, set to Bob Wills' country-and-western songs. As the dancers, who have never performed together before, try to get the dynamics of the piece into their bones, Merle Haggard's voice drawls out Yearning and its songbird over and over. The steps speed up; at one point a square dance veers scarily into a frantic game of musical chairs...
Though Ross's production occasionally falls into the generic failing of hollow dialogue and stale blocking, he does an impressive job with the cast. Lead Hopkins makes a strong showing. His performance is consistently focused, and though he perhaps lacks the haggard air the playwright intended for the character, he replaces it with a flawless befuddlement...
After four days of intensive talks, haggard but happy trade officials emerged with the 57-page report that included Bush's decision Wednesday to raise tax revenues--a departure from his campaign promise of no new taxes...
Over and over, as if to exorcise the evil of Nicolae Ceausescu's ironfisted 24-year reign, national television last week replayed the taped record of his final ignominious hours. Haggard, wrapped in a fur-lined overcoat, his hair in tangles, he sat with his wife Elena behind two folding tables pushed together to form a makeshift dock...