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When Brooke made her first entrance, "halfway through the show, the models backstage applauded. Onstage, as the audience clapped politely, she broke into a grin, as if she thought the whole spectacle a big giggle. If Valentino had tried to show her the catwalk glide, it wasn't evident; she simply galumphed down the runway as if she had been let out into a spring pasture...
...governor resigned more than two months ago, halfway through her second term, saying her illness drained her of the "endurance and stamina" required to face another session of her state's General Assembly...
Thursday is Martin Luther King's birthday, and it should be made a national holiday. And Harvard should make it a full holiday--there is no justification for honoring King halfway. Americans should spend a day reflecting on the life of our greatest modern leader not only because honor is due him, but as well because his example has much to teach us. The forces of selfishness, of mindless pride and arrogance, and most of all the forces that would have us tolerate injustice, are growing more powerful in our nation. We do need to get America moving again...
Nothing happened. Or a great deal happened, but nobody heard much about it. Bunky bestowed his own moniker on the group that evolved from the street corner, and, as the Sheppards, they had one halfway hit, Island of Love, in 1959. Then they played some live shows, turned up on Dick Clark's TV program and in the mid-60s just disintegrated. It was a typical rock trajectory: amateurs, hit makers, has-beens. But with the Sheppards, there is a difference...
...book is a high entertainment. It is, at 600 pages, also long enough to display Burgess at his best and second best: the penetrating dramatist of culture clash and the clever animater of received wisdom. His new novel stretches from the Edwardian Age through the 1970s. At the halfway mark, the reader has already had brushes with Freud, T.S. Eliot, Ford Madox Ford, Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, Havelock Ellis, Mussolini and Heinrich Himmler...