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...columnist. He is not particularly well-known, however, because he writes his satirical columns for The Nation, the far-left weekly magazine (a "pinko rag" the author calls it, perhaps covering himself as a patriotic infiltrator for the next Red Scare) that hides in the rear racks at Out-of-Town News and has a circulation which competes neck and neck with The Crimson's. Thus the great virtue, of this predictably superb sampling of his column, Uncivil Liberties: you actually get to read the pieces, rather than hear about them second-hand from a friend who managed...
...moment it exists only as a two-record LP. Following the precedent he and Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber set with Superstar and Evita, Rice has released an "original cast album" of his latest pop opera before there was ever a show. The Chess set thus functions as an out-of-town tryout, a promotional gambit and a thumpingly successful fund raiser--so much so that Rice, Andersson and Ulvaeus will be providing most of the (pounds)1 million capital needed this fall when Chess boards the London stage. Already, the West End theaterati smell a hit. As Rice happily notes...
There was only one casualty, a boy named Tim who lost the knack of sitting his horse. A police officer turned Tim over to a van full of out-of-town celebrants headed back to Mamou and turned his horse over to another rider. Tim said he had had eleven beers. In town the boy's mother saw her child slumped in a car packed with strangers. "Tim," she shouted with alarm, "what are you doing in there...
...stories, his job is writing them. I see my job as acting." But young Salinger hopes somebody comes to see him in Dancing in the End Zone, which just started rehearsals and will open in January. It will be his Broadway debut, following some off-Broadway and out-of-town stage work as well as a few bit parts in TV soaps. In End Zone, he landed one of the lead roles, playing James Bernard, a talented college quarterback who struggles to reconcile his personal conscience with the win-at-any-cost pressures of his coach. Salinger's father...
...business built largely on trust, a little wildness can be highly contagious. Consider the case of William G. Patterson, the highflying, unorthodox executive vice president of Oklahoma City's Penn Square Bank. While negotiating million-dollar deals in restaurants during the early 1980s, he would sometimes regale out-of-town clients with such stunts as drinking beer out of his cowboy boot or stuffing a roast quail into his pocket. In his office at Penn Square, he would sport Mickey Mouse ears or a hollowed-out duck decoy on his head. Patterson's lending ideas were just...