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...magic. When Ironweed finally appeared in 1983, it won a fistful of awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, not to mention a sale to Hollywood for a big-budget adaptation (Jack Nicholson! Meryl Streep!). Meanwhile -- the narrative gets even better -- Kennedy, now 60, found himself the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation fellowship ($264,000 over five years), diverse other honors, and that peculiar American status,the long, drawn-out, overnight success...
...machinery still works. Sixty years after The Front Page hit Broadway, the Ben Hecht-Charles MacArthur farce retains its manic energy and toxic bite. Gags still pinwheel out of the plot -- the one about a managing editor trying to scoop the world on a big story while keeping his ace reporter from deserting him to get married. And, as three previous movie incarnations have proved, The Front Page turns briskly whether the reporter is a man (Pat O'Brien in 1931, Jack Lemmon in 1974) or the boss's ex-wife (Rosalind Russell | in the 1940 His Girl Friday...
...Jesse Jackson a respectable 9%. Simon found the results galling; he finished a close second, yet his post-Iowa prospects were widely reported as near hopeless. Dukakis' mediocre finish was a fitting reward for a fuzzy campaign; yet he jetted off to New Hampshire with the euphoria of a MacArthur returning to the Philippines. At a Democratic dinner the day after the caucuses, Senator Ted Kennedy joked, "Only eight years ago I finished second in Iowa, and my presidential campaign was finished. This year Mike Dukakis finishes third, and he's on his way to the White House." For Bruce...
...losing kids who might succeed." Others claim Clark's autocratic approach to discipline suggests that there is a quick solution to complex problems. "He seeds the myth that all we have to do is stop kids from knifing each other," snaps Deborah Meier, who won a $335,000 MacArthur Genius grant for her inspired supervision of Harlem's Central Park East schools...
...what you will, snicker if you must, but give Hart his due: it was a great piece of political theater. Rocky, Richard Nixon, Douglas MacArthur, the metaphors of return are all part of the common heritage. So, too, are the religious themes of exile and resurrection. Hart's bumper-sticker rendition of his platform was far sharper and crisper than the rhetoric of his Democratic rivals, but what was most distinctive was the way Hart played the populist poetry of his political predicament. "This will not be like any campaign you've ever seen," Hart promised, "because I am going...