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...FRIDA by Hayden Herrera; Harper & Row; 507 pages...
...contrast, Fraser was generally on the defensive. In calling elections seven months early, he had hoped to limit the political damage of a worsening economy and to run against Bill Hayden, Hawke's lackluster predecessor as head of the Labor Party. The maneuver backfired when, on the very day Fraser called the election, Labor dumped Hayden and turned to the charismatic Hawke. Fraser responded by reminding Australia's basically conservative electorate of his own 27 years in Parliament, compared with Hawke's two years. But more often, he devoted too much energy to disparaging Hawke...
...said, determined not to "warm my bum on a back bench." Hawke's subsequent lackluster performance has cast some doubts on his ability to govern. But after Labor suffered a demoralizing defeat in a by-election last December, the party decided to jettison Bill Hayden, 50, its colorless longtime leader, and gamble on Hawke's double-edged magnetism...
...Swanke Hayden Connell Architects, the firm that has designed the proposed replacement for Lever House, has charged that Lever is out of date and badly deteriorated, requiring restoration that would cost millions of dollars. Retorts William Conklin, vice chairman of the landmarks commission: "It's absolutely ridiculous to say that the building is falling down. It is unfair exaggeration used for political impact...
...Miller strove for Greek myth, his play is more of a tabloid melodrama. A simple stevedore named Eddie (Tony Lo Bianco) in Red Hook, Brooklyn, allows two of his wife's Sicilian relatives, illegally smuggled into the U.S., to live in his home. The younger one, Rodolpho (James Hayden), falls in love with Eddie's orphaned niece, Catherine (Saundra Santiago...