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...Lloyd Bentsen said not long ago that George Bush must be a real Texan because "he can rope, tie and brand a lobster with the best of them." Now a New Jersey farming community has discovered that its cows like to eat clams and other seafood. Get ready for Bush Burgers: surf and turf...
...virtually every poetry prize the University offers and a few outside awards as well. In his first year, he won the Academy of American Poets Prize. In his junior year, he won the Horeman Prize from the Creative Writing Department. As a senior, he won both the Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize for Poetry and the Hoopes Prize for his thesis, a collection of poems titled "Most Way Home." He has twice placed in the Harvard Advocate's poetry contest, and once placed in The Independent's He has published his poems in the Advocate, The Harvard Quarterly, The Harvard Gazette...
...characters, exquisitely played under Lloyd Richards' direction, are a gallery of types but come across as individuals. Among them, the restaurant owner, Memphis (Al White), is a former Mississippian who was cheated of his property and driven from his farmstead for the crime of succeeding where a white man had failed. Risa (Cynthia Martells), the restaurant's sole waitress, gets her hope from religion and prophecy. Wolf (Anthony Chisholm) is a petty criminal, a numbers runner for the white Mob who gets along by going along. Sterling (Larry Fishburne, star of the movie Boyz N the Hood) is a rambunctious...
...Lloyd Reuss, 55, was demoted from president to executive vice president (his successor: John F. Smith Jr., 54, head of GM's profitable foreign operations); Robert T. O'Connell, 53, was bumped from executive V.P. and chief financial officer to senior V.P. Those moves had been expected since late last year, when outside directors began grousing about GM's inability to halt its slide. Last year the company's U.S. operations lost $7 billion, forcing GM to close 21 plants and eliminate 74,000 jobs...
...Democrats are still trying to keep enough superdelegates uncommitted until the convention so that they can manipulate some votes, give a few good sound bites, wave their magic wands and, in a puff of smoke from their smoke-filled rooms, produce a safe middle-of-the-road candidate--Sen. Lloyd Bentsen of Texas, for example...