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...Opera Star Frederica von Stade to perform at a state dinner in 1982, the unsure First Lady ordered them first to "check it out with Frank." Nancy also saw quite a lot of her rich bachelor friend Jerry Zipkin, a full-time Manhattan partygoer whom she has called "a modern-day Oscar Wilde." Says one of her former aides: "There is a little element here of Louis XIV's French court and les precieuses --the affected ladies. She had a certain liking for witty, amusing, well-dressed men who were willing to walk three paces behind and carry the purse...
Surprisingly, Hummel's essentially conservative interpretation of the drama lies at the heart of much of its success. In avoiding the tendency to turn Julie and Jean's romance into a modern-day social commentary, Hummel maintains the aristocratic character so central to Miss Julie. The love scene is confined to an appropriately small, 19th century staging, as is the confrontation between Julie and Jean. In both action and design nothing seems extraneous...
...knew exactly where to look because they had planted the evidence. The authorities did not press charges against Popieluszko but continued the campaign by other means. Under the pseudonym Jan Rem, Government Press Spokesman Jerzy Urban wrote a scathing article in the weekly Tu i Teraz calling Popieluszko a "modern-day Rasputin." The priest, he said, held "hate sessions" in his church...
...When day breaks, church bells ring in Temple, Texas, founded in 1881 astride the rail line south of Waco and not far from modern-day Fort Hood, the largest military base in the free world. Temple's churches fill on Sunday, and as the white sun climbs higher, hymns are sung and sermons spoken. Down at the Frank W. Mayborn Civic and Convention Center, parishioners of Temple Bible Church finish their prayers and stream out into the noonday heat, and the bright light that bears down on the town, bleaching its low buildings against the prairie...
...movies go, tornados haven't been this popular since "The Wizard of Oz." Back then, though, the twister was simply a modern-day deux ex machine-a simple, foot-proof way of getting Dorothy from Kansas to Oz with no questions asked. The current cinematic trend, seen in Places in the Heart and now in Jessica Lange's new film Country, has taken upon itself the unenviable task of giving Meaning to the once familiar and unportentuous storm. While the tradition of literary storms, from King Lear to Moby Dick, is a valid one, in a less subtle medium like...