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...born and raised in a traditional middle class, African-American family in Washington D.C. The reader first meets Stewart in the spring of 1963 as the enviable picture of success. She is a 25-year-old graduate student at Harvard and is married to her handsome highschool sweetheart, Lincoln, a graduate student at MIT consumed by the civil rights movement. Friends and family members look at the couple with pride and exclaim, "You two look just like magazine models", but looks prove to be worth nothing...
Since recrossing the Atlantic, she has begun to make waves. Her performance at a celebration of the film music of Duke Ellington at New York City's Lincoln Center in May startled and delighted those who heard it. As she took the stage to sing Ellington's Saddest Tale--performed by Holiday in 1935--her bearing was tentative, awkward. But when she started singing, her performance was said to be impeccably phrased, suffused with emotion; the New York Times said "she might as well have been channeling Billie Holiday...
Ronald Reagan was the great postwar hedgehog, and candidates ever since have of necessity sought that same aura. George Bush was as poor at managing "the vision thing" as Dole. In this presidential parlor game, George Washington was a hedgehog, John Adams a fox. Abraham Lincoln was a hedgehog, Harry Truman a fox. Franklin D. Roosevelt was a fox who grew into a supreme hedgehog. Richard Nixon lost as a fox in 1960 but won as a hedgehog in 1968. National crises both demand and create hedgehogs, and hedgehogs go down in history as the great Presidents. And in this...
...fast pace of the show, powered by the engergy of the performers, is sustained to the final scene, "Hot Rod Lincoln," in which all five cast members perform. Music by Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen provides background while the dancers pantomime driving fast cars. That the dancers still effortlessly lift each other and climb around as if they hadn't been performing for nearly an hour and a half is amazing...
...intoxicated by a celebrity case. Gawkers still occasionally wander into Ito's courtroom, now located on a higher floor, to see the familiar face preside over routine criminal trials. Last April Ito suffered a setback: a federal judge overturned his second most famous case, the 1991 state conviction of Lincoln S&L chief Charles Keating, on the grounds Ito gave flawed jury instructions. Despite that ruling and continuing criticism of his handling of the O.J. criminal case, Ito is running unopposed for re-election to the bench. As the civil-trial phase of the Simpson mess opened last week...