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...time with his family, in whom he takes obvious delight: baby-sitting his grandchildren and dining at home with his wife Alma (who doesn't want him to run). After a lifetime of Army housing, he likes being what he calls "General Harry Homeowner" in his $1.3 million mini-mansion in a Washington suburb. The general's missions: repairing drywall to fix water damage from an upstairs shower and messing around with the antique Volvos he loves to restore. Sometimes the papers he sends back to his office-he works mostly from home-have grease stains. Since leaving the Pentagon...
...have been in danger of losing his license as he headed for his third fund-raising meeting of the day. The former Tennessee Governor got up before dawn that morning in New Hampshire, flew to Nashville and then addressed his 40 top local financiers at a genteel Governor's-mansion lunch. He later huddled with country-music star Ray Stevens (A-hab the A-rab) to plan the entertainment for a $2 million fund-raising dinner this Monday and then dashed to a small arm-twisting reception on Nashville's storied southwest side around dusk...
...interview yesterday in the plush sitting room of the Dean's House, McArthur, 60, said he will leave "when the new dean is ready to start." McArthur, who lives in Wayland, is the first dean in the school's 87-year-old history not to live in the mansion...
...singing a lullaby to his one-year-old daughter: ``I want a div- or-or-or-orce. I want a div-or-or-or-orce.'' The Governor raises the subject of divorce with fellow Governors whose marriages have broken up. Eventually, the marital spats in the Governor's mansion grow so loud the employees want to run away and hide...
Schedrin's lazy, impotent score is loutish when it is not downright sullen. The finale-in which the degenerate playwright Quilty scrambles around his mansion in a drugged stupor, stopping to pound out a few chords on his piano before Humbert Humbert (Per-Arne Wahlgren) shoots him-is a scene worthy of Shostakovich in his manic, trumpets-and-snare-drums mode, but all Schedrin can muster is forced-march noodlings. As for the vulgar libretto, Schedrin wrote it himself but neglected to secure rights from the Nabokov estate. The copyright problems were eventually sorted out with the stipulation that...