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...James Madison 77, Shippensburg...
Eric Heiden, 22, does not mince words about his pet peeves. "I hate New York," says the Wisconsin-born Olympic speed skater. "If you don't walk ten miles an hour there, you're run over." Same goes for Manhattan's Central Park: "In Madison, it would be condemned." Nor is the winner of five gold medals fond of being a celebrity: "If I wanted to become famous, I would have stuck to hockey." As for all the commercial offers he rejects: "I don't want to have to go places to keep appointments...
Given the transformation of the pre-teen rump into a sex symbol in dozens of designer-jeans ads, and the popularity of "nymphet" models on Madison Ave., staging the book that coined that term once again was more good commercial sense than homage to Nabokov. Although capitalizing on this latest fashion in exploitation shouldn't have to mean joining in gleefully, through much of Lolita that's what Albee seems to be doing. Where Nabokov will choose an elegant pun, Albee lunges for the obscene gag: where Nabokov will subtly makes you think about the arbitrariness of social rules, Albee...
...might be again, a nice, neat division of powers and functions among federal, state and local governments. This wistful notion- known in political science circles as the "layer-cake absolute"- has never existed in reality but can be tracked back to some of the pro-Constitution positions that James Madison expressed in the Federalist Papers. Said Madison: "The federal Constitution forms a happy combination . . the great and aggregate interests being referred to the national, and the local and particular to the state governments." That created the freedom to quarrel about which interests were great, which aggregate, which particular, which local...
That night came the Inaugural balls, which have been part of the Inauguration since James and Dolley Madison had one in 1809. For Reagan, there were ten balls around Washington (plus local versions in 83 cities via a closed-circuit TV hookup), the most ever, and the price of admission was $100 per person, also the most ever. The balls were generally glamorous, and most participants, at some point in the evening, had a good time. But many of the affairs were disorganized, and all were jampacked. Texas Millionaire John Bartlett, for example, was one of the unfortunates...