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...this faraway fable aspects of her own autobiography, and made Yentl a metaphor for the long struggle of womankind to emerge into the lonely splendor that is Streisand. For her male co-star she hired Mandy Patinkin, who has wrapped his crystalline Broadway tenor voice around Sondheim and Andrew Lloyd Webber, then gave him no songs to sing; all eleven are Streisand solos. And she has inflated the production values until the humblest shtetl looks grand enough to house the Scarsdale Hadassah. Chutzpah, folks...
...DIED. Lloyd McBride, 67, unassuming president of the United Steelworkers since 1977 who skillfully but futilely fought to salvage the jobs of some 700,000 union members in the fading domestic steel industry; following heart surgery; in Whitehall, Pa. After quitting school at 14, he went to work in a St. Louis foundry for 250 an hour, became an active unionist who rose through the ranks and survived a bitter insurgency fight to inherit I.W. Abel's mantle only to see the Steelworkers' membership plummet by half during his term from a 1979 high of 1.4 million...
...American intervention. Former Prime Minister Maurice Bishop had been their hero, and when he was placed under house arrest by extremists led by Deputy Prime Minister Bernard Coard and then executed by a Military Revolutionary Army Council headed by General Hudson Austin, the earlier revolutionaries lost their zeal. Said Lloyd Noel, a former Attorney General under Bishop who had been imprisoned after breaking with Bishop's party: "The Americans should feel free to establish a base here." He urged that the U.S. stay for at least two years of transition to a more stable government. Lyden Ramdhany, Bishop...
...White House insisted that the fundamental question is the "responsibility of the President to exercise [his] constitutional power of appointment." But Senators of both parties were outraged. Texas Democrat Lloyd Bentsen fulminated that "the President's action is a form of tyranny, the tyranny to put down voices of dissent." Maryland Republican Charles Mathias professed himself "shocked" by Reagan's "callous insensitivity to the efforts of congressional leaders" who had been trying to work out a compromise. John Shattuck, an official of the American Civil Liberties Union, voiced a suspicion common among civil rights activists. Said...
Fusco foiled Evans' aggressive playing with a steady Chris Evert-Lloyd style back-court game, returning everything Evans could dish...