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...this cloud for a moment and look inside myself.'" A race for the presidency, however easy the start, would become very, very hard. The general was enough a creature of the capital to know how it works. "The people who are sucking you in today will stick a knife in your back tomorrow if the boat starts to go under," Michael says. "They have personal interest in being attached to a phenomenon." His father had to be careful not to let that sweep past his instincts...
...write a musical about gang warfare, racism, police brutality, and attempted rape. Drive-by shootings aren't the kind of thing out-of-towners spend $50 to see on the Great White Way. But Leonard Bernstein's "West Side Story" comes from a more innocent time, when a knife fight could seem a natural subject for a ballet, and a line like "got a rocket in your pocket" didn't automatically provoke knowing winks from the audience. To present that musical now, without turning it into pure kitsch, requires a daunting level of sincerity and enthusiasm. To do it with...
...Beach, California, VA hospital discovered a benign tumor growing in his brain five years ago but decided he could not survive surgery to remove it because of a heart condition, which had required a quadruple by-pass operation. Fortunately, there was a life-saving alternative: he could undergo "gamma knife" radiation. The VA hospital didn't offer that particular treatment, but the nearby private Hospital of the Good Samaritan did. Winsick's VA doctors set out to arrange VA funding for Winsick's treatment there...
...first, the desert island scenario is played for laughs; as Bishop complains of hunger, Phyllis pulls a huge butcher-knife from her handbag, with the instruction: "Go cut the arm off that nun." But as mother and son gradually realize that they are not going to be rescued, they begin to drift towards insanity--Bishop, neurotic and stuttering from the start, talks obsessively about Katherine Hepburn, while Phyllis clings to her vanity about clothes and make-up in order to fend off the horrible truth...
WHEN A CIRCUS GOES AWRY, IT IS USUALly the fault of the ringmaster. Judge Ito was not able to keep the sideshows under control, and as a result the knife thrower got away with murder. This was not justice; this was a travesty. MARE-LIIS BALLES , Agincourt, Ontario...