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...Mozart's 35 years. His music, which in the play served only as an allusive ostinato, seizes center screen with significant excerpts from four Mozart operas, several concerti and the Requiem. As seen through the dealer's eye of the movie camera, Salieri looks like a sullen midget next to a Mozart monument; he is Judas to Mozart's Jesus, James Earl Ray to his Martin Luther King Jr., Bob Uecker to his Babe Ruth. Explains Shaffer: "Salieri had to give way just a bit to make room for the glory and wonder of his victim...
What a shame that a giant like Haig was toppled by a midget like Meese...
Donald ("Deke") Slayton, 59, a no-nonsense loyalist to the space program, remained with NASA until 1982, when he became president of Houston's Space Services Inc., the first American privately financed space enterprise. Divorced this year, he revels in flying his formula midget racing plane in competitions, but otherwise keeps a low profile. His astronaut celebrity, he says, was something to be tolerated rather than enjoyed: "I just learned to cope with...
...challenge. And people were so taken by the initial optimism about sex therapy that they did not actually look at the long-term outcome data as carefully as they should have." M & J's defenders stress the debt that all sex therapists owe to their early efforts. "A midget can see farther than a giant if he's standing on the shoulders of a giant," insists Wardell Pomeroy, academic dean at the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco. "Masters and Johnson are giants in their field...
...royal family itself comes under a scathingly iconoclastic attack that makes Joan Rivers look like a Buckingham Palace press agent. The palace protocol contingent, which readies the hospital for the Queen Mother's visit, consist of a midget (Marcus Powell) and a very prim and proper transvestite named Lady Felicity (John Bett). Yet, as the British humor magazine Punch noted in defense of the movie. Anderson ultimately remains just this side of decorum: when the Queen Mother finally does arrive--admittedly in a stretcher and ambulance to get her past the left-wing mobs protesting the fascist African dictator being...