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Kathryn L. Pearson, of Santa Rosa, Ca., told Parade's Lloyd Shearer, author of the magazine's hard-hitting "Intelligence Report," she opted for the campus, whose architecture has served as an inspiration for the builders of Spanishstyle condominiums, when they promised her "the use of a Stradivarius that Stanford has in its collection...
...raging through the title role in Howard Fast's bawdy, sermonic adaptation of his novel Citizen Tom Paine; Christopher Reeve, shrewdly underplaying a Barrymore-like matinee idol in a meticulous and uproarious revival of The Royal Family; and Bernadette Peters, trying out portions of Song and Dance, the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical extravaganza that is booked to open in mid-September on Broadway...
Well, start with an all-American kid like Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox, the ultra-conservative son in "Family Ties"). Surround him with a girl-next-door sweetheart, a caricature family and a mad doctor friend (Christopher Lloyd, who played Jim the drug addict in "Taxi") who has created a Time Machine. Sound familiar...
...Potter, a self- described "middle-aged tennis player of 23." Yet the joint proprietors of women's tennis, sharers of the past 15 grand-slam events going back to 1981, are the oldest members of the top ten. Coming to their fifth final at Wimbledon, Navratilova, 28, and Evert Lloyd, 30, had met 65 times over twelve years and stood one victory apart. The most enduring rivals in sports, they represent a conflict more fascinating than any tennis match...
...America, say historians, was peopled by savages, but savages never reared these structures, savages never carved these stones." So said John Lloyd Stephens in 1839 at the sight of the lost Maya city of Copan rising eerily out of the Honduran jungle. The pioneering American archaeologist was amazed by the art objects that lay around Copan's crumbling pyramids and palaces. "Architecture, sculpture and painting, all the arts which embellish life, had flourished in this overgrown forest; beauty, ambition and glory had lived and passed away," Stephens wrote. "All was mystery, dark impenetrable mystery...