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...rest of the cast are uniformly good, if occasionally stricken with a slight first-weekend woodenness which should disappear. Steve Peterson, measuring in at somewhere over six feet, uses his own position somewhat nearer to heaven than most to his advantage as the omniscient and condescending Mr. Jordan, but it's hard not to miss James Mason in the role. Patrick O'Kelley provides a deliciously loathsome Tony Abbott, the sleazy lover who tries to drown his millionaire boss and make off with his wife...
...Wimbledon too. It's quite fun actually." Asked if it might change him, he responded, "It hasn't yet." (At least half an hour had gone by.) In other words, he would be maintaining his English residence in Chelsea? "No, Kensington." And not be moving to Monte Carlo, nearer the night life and farther from the taxmen? "It's not me." As a matter of fact, Edberg describes his fundamental hope as the ability to continue patronizing a particular pizza parlor in anonymity...
...consensus would enable Americans to pit their art with confidence against the School of Paris. And it was found in abstract expressionism and then in color-field painting -- both high styles and, in theory at least, sociologically neutral. Thus, writes Curator Beardsley, there appeared an "unwritten presumption that the nearer an artist aspires to the level of high art, the more leached out will become the ethnic content of the work." Hence the peculiarly airless and circular way in which New York City defined itself from about 1965 on as the cultural caput mundi, pulling all talent into its gravitational...
...part, Moscow is intent on placating its foreign antagonists because Gorbachev would rather spend his energy on reforms at home. As the meeting with Reagan drew nearer, Soviet leaders were preoccupied with an even more crucial domestic summit, the Communist Party Conference set for June 28. Last Thursday the Politburo decided to call a plenum of the 307-member Central Committee to discuss the party conference...
Meanwhile, brown-haired, brown-eyed, Grambling-educated Williams dutifully reported to the worst expansion franchise in pro football history, the 2-26 Tampa Bay Buccaneers. When two years later he lifted the Bucs to within a game of a Super Bowl, but no nearer, his reward was a rotten watermelon gift- wrapped by a racist fan. For peace as much as money, he eventually jumped to another league. When it folded in 1986, only Washington held out a job. At 32, five years older than Elway, Williams had been standing behind Jay Schroeder for a year and a half when...