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...year helped to encourage the faithful to discriminate between superficial and serious religion. Movies such as Broadcast News urge the triumph of substance over shadow, as does the popular television series L.A. Law, which has recently turned its hand to social-action stories and away from money, its founding muse. Tom Wolfe, who has forged a career out of the superficialities of the times, now produces a novel about vanity, sensing that people may be ready to condemn the vacant, self-celebrating life. The plague of AIDS, in its own dark way, has contributed to a national maturing by forcing...
...mathematics at Williams College, he enrolled in a music course. Most of the class, he recalls, loathed it. "The professor, Robert Barrow, was cold and dogmatic. I thought he was the best thing I had ever encountered, because he took all the romance away from art. Instead of the muse coming at midnight and humming Some Enchanted Evening into your ear, music was constructed. It wasn't what other people wanted to hear, but it turned me into a music major...
...Denver, a pseudo- Bavarian fantasy, is a giddy complex of shops, offices, restaurants and movie theaters. The vast old Bullock's department store in downtown Los Angeles has been turned into the country's largest wholesale jewelry mart, and Houston's art deco Alabama Theater has merely exchanged one muse for another. The place is now a bookstore. Pioneer Square in Seattle, with its raffish characters, is proving that preservation and up-market transformation do not necessarily mean the death of funk...
...sense that he approaches each case with no predilection about who will be the winners or losers." Kozinski asserts that Kennedy sometimes is open to change even after reaching a preliminary decision. When clerks had trouble framing an opinion according to the judge's instructions, says Kozinski, Kennedy would muse that "if the case wouldn't write that way, maybe the result was wrong...
...White House in seven months -- by announcing that the summit had finally been scheduled. But Shultz had not yet completed his talks; when a reporter raised the subject, Reagan could merely state, "We don't have a word yet or a date yet." Then he went on to muse about how he would like the Soviet leader "to see a great deal of America." They might end up, he said, at his ranch near Santa Barbara. "I've thought it would be kind of nice to invite him up to our 1,500-ft. adobe shack that was built...