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...arrived an hour later, they found Taylor's Los Angeles bungalow swarming with reporters and souvenir hunters. The press made much of reports that Mabel Normand, the heroine of Mack Sennett's Keystone Kops comedies, was seen rummaging through desk drawers in search of her old love letters. A Paramount executive was sitting in front of the fireplace burning papers. A man claiming to be a doctor examined the corpse and announced that Taylor had died of a stomach hemorrhage. Only an hour later did an official turn the body over to find that he had been shot...
WHICH IS why our disbelief does manage to be suspended. All the characters in the script are caricatures and all the players in the play are characters. In a production like Gargantua, it's of paramount importance that the actors seem like they're having a good time so that the audience can't helped being sucked into the fun. For this feat, the entire company deserves lavish praise...
...EVER strike you as funny that liberals on campus are called liberals. One would assume that liberals would be ardent supporters of liberalism--that they would think individual rights and freedoms are paramount values, that they would fight for the rights of people to freely express themselves, and above all else, that they would be tolerant of other opinions...
...test ban. But many in the Administration, led by Perle, maintain that even on-site monitoring offers little promise. "There's no way a few inspectors can police the whole Soviet Union," Perle says. For these hard-liners, the need to stay ahead of Moscow's modernization program is paramount. Concedes Perle: "I'm opposed to a comprehensive test ban even if it were verifiable...
...unpropitious sign. When China's paramount leader Deng Xiaoping appeared at a lunar New Year's celebration in early February, his right eye, which is often half closed, drooped shut completely. Then the 81-year-old Deng, who had just returned from six weeks in seclusion, again disappeared from public view. Anxious Chinese citizens and China watchers began to fear that his health had taken a serious turn for the worse...