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...late Trudeau has been breaking his self-imposed silence, and on behalf of a controversial project: Rap Master Ronnie, a cabaret revue lampooning the Reagan Administration. Begun in 1984 as an off-Broadway lark, the show has been staged in nine cities, including Washington, where it opened in October and has been extended into next year. Trudeau constantly revises, adding for Washington a parody of bargaining with the Soviets for the release of American Journalist Nicholas Daniloff. "I feel passionate about this," says Trudeau. "I want people to think about events during the Reagan years that we tend to forget...
...creative and a whole lot more fun than today's sober pursuit of facts and reasoned analysis. But 58 years of interpretation, including three film versions, may have been wrongheaded: a crackling revival at Manhattan's Lincoln Center persuasively makes the case that The Front Page is less a lark and more a socially inflamed piece of press criticism. In this vision, the reprehensible reporters peddle human interest without feeling the least flicker of humanity. They have lost, or abandoned, all spirit of reform...
Joining the National Guard was once thought of as an excuse to get out of the house for the weekend and play soldier. These days, however, service in the Guard is no lark. When 38 medics from the Iowa National Guard returned to Iowa City last week, they were back from Honduras, not Fort Dodge. They had spent two weeks training in the bush and giving medical treatment to occupants of remote villages like Toro Muerto. The Air National Guard unit in Bangor, Me., has already been in Alaska, California and Italy this year and is revving...
...first day of competition, the Crimson captured three first place finishes out of 18 races. In the A lark divison, Harvard's Gordon Burnes and Beth Pryor combined for first place in the fourth race...
...side in English called Irresistible and the other in French called Ouragan (that means Hurricane, but it is actually the same song). The record, which will soon be released in the U.S., has been out for five weeks and has sold 100,000 copies in France alone. Her lark as a thrush might lead next to making an album, says Stephanie, if that does not take too much time away from her fashion work. Why the need to keep so busy? "I'm growing old," she laughs. "At my age, one likes to be on the move." And move...