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Heir to his father's seat in this district, LoPresti has too easily succumbed to the comforts of friendship with the leadership. He has used his more than five terms to move up the senate ladder to Judiciary Chair--the third ranking Democratic post--while gradually losing touch with his constiuency...
Heir to his father's seat in this district. LoPresti has too easily succumbed to the comforts of friendship with the leadership. He has used his more than five terms to move up the senate ladder to Judiciary Chair--the third ranking Democratic post--while gradually losing touch with his constituency...
...Splash, Actress Daryl Hannah, 23, made waves by playing a girl who was part human, part fish. For her next role, Hannah has moved up a few rungs on the evolutionary ladder. In The Clan of the Cave Bear, now filming in northwestern Canada, Hannah portrays a young Cro-Magnon girl adopted by a tribe of less developed Neanderthals. Based on Jean Auel's bestselling novel, the movie, due next summer, will strive for authenticity, a fact that Hannah finds chilling. "They drop us in the middle of a glacier, and we're dressed in skins." Hannah...
...sympathetically but indirectly through a theory of hierarchical oppositions. Other, like-minded characters in the novel agree that it's okay to be poor or to be a pervert so as long as one is genuinely a reverse snob and can believe that being at the bottom of "the ladder" is just as good as being at the top. Of course, Mailer's characters cannot accept any such proposition for long: the inevitable resurgence of desire--for status, normalcy, wealth, or what-not-cancels the values of the day before...
Even the flamboyant David Wolper (Roots, The Thorn Birds), producer of the more than $6 million extravaganza, ran afoul of an overweening zeal on the part of an employee well down the ladder of power. There were 300 placard bearers on the field trying to rehearse, and at the oddest moments an automatic sprinkler system would click on and reduce their practice to drippy disarray. At last the producer located a workman whose raiment included an enormous ring of jangling keys. The key holder was intractable at the start: "Watering that field is just as important...