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...didn't live near anybody. The guy who had no peers. By the sixties there wasn't even any competition. Elvis who locked Priscilla away in Graceland until she was old enough to marry him. Why America loves burnouts is a difficult questions. Why he was in his one-man purgatory is anyone's guess. But that's where...
Chase, Conti and Keith are one-man bands strutting their magnetic stuff; but it is in ensemble work that the London stage shines. In directing Nicholas Nickleby, Trevor Nunn juggled 43 actors in 138 speaking parts to create the propulsive bustle of Dickens' London. Now he and Choreographer Gillian Lynne have brought an informed anarchy to Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical settings for T.S. Eliot's exercise in whimsy and social satire, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. When it appeared in 1939, Practical Cats comprised 14 poems; Valerie Eliot, the poet's widow...
...circle is not only vicious, it breeds violence. As crime rates rise, state legislators react by passing stiff laws requiring longer minimum prison sentences. Result: more prisoners stay longer in prisons that are already crammed well past their planned capacity. Tensions rise as up to five inmates crowd into one-man cubicles. Gang rule prevails, as the toughest convicts abuse and torment the meek or nonviolent, and guards on undermanned correction staffs fear to intervene. When an inmate is finally freed, he is equipped for only one thing: to survive in the ways of the walled jungle. More often than...
...basic legal question in all this litigation is something that the Supreme Court is about to answer. It will rule on a suit, Rhodes vs. Chapman, filed in 1975 by Kelly Chapman, an armed robber held at Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville. He contended that the one-man cell he shared with another prisoner gave him only 32 sq. ft. of personal space...
...defends as merely "authoritarian"-on the unsure ground that these allies are relatively more free than fully "totalitarian" Communist societies. Lefever said he deplored the Carter Administration's tendency to chide certain U.S. allies publicly about their human rights violations. "I don't regard myself as a one-man Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval," he told the committee. "The channels of quiet diplomacy provide a more effective way to encourage greater respect for human rights." When asked by Cranston about his attitude toward official brutality in nations friendly to the U.S., Lefever bristled: "I don't name...