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...major character who takes six slugs at point-blank range and survives miraculously the following week). But his storytelling skills have never been sharper, and his favorite theme -- the clash between institutions and people, between the law and justice -- has never been dramatized at a higher, more compelling pitch...
Years of experience also gave the band the ability to play the crowd as well as--well, as well as Joe Perry plays guitar. After rousing the crowd to a fever pitch, Aerosmith proceeded to lull them with their rock ballad, "Dream On." Then they returned with the haunting "Janie's Got a Gun" and some of their harder numbers--only to break the mounting tension again by suddenly breaking into the theme from Peter Gunn. When Steve Tyler jokingly asked if everyone knew how it felt to be "Livin' on the Edge," and then began the best and last...
...candidates made a last-minute pitch for the undecided vote last night, giving five-minute speeches at the traditional pre-election rally in the city's Dorchester neighborhood...
Herbert's steely, in-your-face style complemented Robert's gentler, laid- back manner. A Harvard Business School graduate, Robert founded Crown Books in 1977 and built it into one of the first successful book discount chains with his pitch "Books just cost too much!" Herbert took pride in such achievements and kept increasing his son's responsibilities. Since the two fell out last spring, however, Robert has been reduced to waiting outside the Washington Post offices at 3:45 a.m. to read the latest developments in the family feud; the only communications he gets from his father are daily...
...lawyers convene this week in New York City for the A.B.A.'s annual meeting. And they're not being oversensitive, either. A poll published by the National Law Journal last week concluded that "resentment of lawyers -- ranging from lawyer-bashing jokes to outright vilification -- is running at a fever pitch." Seventy-three percent of the 815 Americans polled believe that there are too many lawyers. Only 5% said they would recommend law as a profession to their children. Concedes incoming A.B.A. president R. William Ide III: "We're sort of getting kicked in the shins...