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...stable or as splendid as they had once been." As empire and prosperity slipped away, a few voices rose to stem history's tide. He assesses the efforts of comic-opera geniuses Gilbert and Sullivan, as well as novelist Ian Fleming, whose agent James Bond was a one-man antidote to the Cold War. Also Margaret Thatcher, for whom decline was a moral question but whose "hectoring intolerance proved her undoing...
...Muslims mix freely as neighbors and friends. There is little here to nurture hate in a young Hindu. But the people of Vadnagar remember two things about their most famous son. His startling abilities as an actor, taking lead roles in school plays and once writing and performing a one-man show. And his almost fanatical devotion, from the age of five, to the BJP's parent organization, the secretive Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (National Volunteers Party, or RSS). Modi's 86-year-old mother Hiraben recalls that her son couldn't wait for the moment each day when he could...
...complaints are pending, so Von Hagens may yet be arrested - and some medical professionals calling it a travesty, we wanted sound bites of public outrage, or at least shock. We'd fallen into a Venus-flytrap of p.r., since anything we wrote would be more publicity for Von Hagens' one-man (and a lot of dead bodies) show. We didn't care; we knew a good story when we saw one. Or so we thought. Unfortunately for our stories, the non-journalists in attendance seemed nonplussed. David Roberts, an Oxford physics student, was disappointed that the body was pickled...
...foot-3-inch, 200-pounder isn’t a one-man team. He’s a one-man athletic program...
...being a spectacular showman, is a talented musician, as are the other members of the band. While LeBlanc’s drum set is prominent at the front and center of the stage, the microphones on either side of it help demonstrate that it’s not a one-man band. Indeed, the Mouths’ two guitarists, John Thomas Griffith and Paul Sanchez, and bassist Rob Savoy all write songs and take turns singing lead...