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Even so, Lloyd Webber's creation is probably better than the ponderous London performance. Director Trevor Nunn excels at narrative clarity, which is present in the original, but not at nuancing characters, which is sorely needed with such miscast stars. As Norma, renowned for delicate beauty, Patti LuPone is too tempestuous, too earthy and too coarse of feature, especially her aardvark nose. As her lover, Kevin Anderson looks pudding-faced and pudgy, so long gone to seed that the supposedly vast age difference disappears -- until the finale, when LuPone inexplicably appears 20 years older than she was moments before. While...
...toward a new formula -- "Don't ask, don't tell, don't pursue" -- that would meet the military's requirements while trying to define what one official called a "zone of privacy" for gay servicemen and -women. But the military's chief congressional ally, Armed Services chairman Senator Sam Nunn, was taking no chances. Ending his truce with the White House, Nunn announced that he would introduce legislation to codify a strict interpretation of "Don't ask, don't tell" -- one that would preserve the policy that declares "Homosexuality is incompatible with military service...
...that moment has not arrived for Nunn, and may never come. On Friday, the Georgia Senator surprised even sympathetic colleagues by announcing on the Senate floor that Congress would have to pass a law on the gay ban -- no matter what Clinton decided. His language was tough and restrictive. "There should be no change in the current grounds for discharge for homosexual acts or statements and marriages." He included among his targets anyone who "demonstrates a propensity to engage in homosexual acts." These were fighting words, since one point of the six-month study was to give Nunn his time...
...while improving the lot of gays already in uniform. The White House also seems to be taking heart from the fact that the so-called compromise means spinach for everyone. But the costs are heavy. Aspin and his aides lie bloodied on the floor of the Pentagon briefing room. Nunn's threat to legislate even harsher restrictions on gays remains real...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted at a meeting this spring to approve most of the report's recommendations. President Neil l.. Rudenstine has personally written letters to Clinton, Secretary of Defense Les Aspin and Senate Armed Services Committee Chair Sam Nunn (D-Ga.) urging them...