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...expanded version debuted in Los Angeles, it cannot begin to suggest the playwright's wacky tactics -- the derisive humor, uninhibited fantasy and freehand jumbling of the journalistic and the supernatural that distinguish this raging farce from lesser, if tidier, AIDS plays. Kushner takes a topic for a TV mini-series and warps it into weirdly satisfying poetry...
...fire destroyed the two story mini-mall at 99 Mount Auburn St. yesterday morning, causing a half million dollars of damage, Cambridge Fire Department officials said yesterday...
TELEVISION Sinatra's life makes an enjoyable mini-series...
Sinatra, a five-hour CBS mini-series about the pop-music legend, sounded unpromising from the get-go. The Chairman of the Board's life story has been too public and too troubling -- fights with reporters, alleged Mafia ties, stories of boorish behavior -- to be much good as myth, and network TV doesn't have the stomach for a real expose. Especially not in a movie produced by Sinatra's own daughter Tina...
...however, made half-hour political ads the centerpiece of his campaign -- with astonishing success. His first program, a lecture on the economy that aired in early October, drew a higher rating than the baseball play-off game it preceded. Though ratings dropped for subsequent broadcasts, Perot's month-long mini-series still did better than many network prime-time shows...