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...State Controller Alan Cranston to take over Engle's candidacy. Unruh wanted anyone Brown did not want. First, he persuaded State Attorney General Stanley Mosk to run in the Democratic primary. But Brown, in his turn, persuaded Mosk to withdraw. Big Daddy looked around for another candidate to pit against Cranston. He picked Pierre...
...congealed in print. One sight gag typifies the impish inventiveness that animates the evening. A man (Jonathan Lynn) holding a banana like a revolver starts firing away at imaginary foes, kapow! kapow! kapow! Suddenly the banana goes silent. He peels it down, throws the banana into the orchestra pit, keeps the skin, takes another peeled banana from a paper wrapper, inserts it meticulously in the empty skin, and resumes firing. Kapow...
...Think'st thou that I, who saw the face of God And tasted the eternal joys of heaven, Am not tormented with ten thousand hells, In being depriv'd of everlasting bliss? As Faustus is dragged into the flame-red torture pit, he recognizes a more searing anguish than fire-eternal exile from...
...ITALIAN GIRL, by Iris Murdoch. Another unsteady Murdoch heroine walks the thin line between old rules and new temptations. She wavers, of course, to give the author another opportunity to pit human emotions against moral tradition...
...summer, Boston practiced with a sponge dangling from a crossbar, 9 ft. above the broad-jump pit. The idea was to aim for it with his head-on the theory that the higher he jumped the farther he would go-and last week he nearly jumped out of sight. In the final U.S. Olympic trials at Los Angeles, Boston bounded 27 ft. 101 in. on his very first try-a full 7 in. past the world mark held by Russia's Igor Ter-Ovanesyan. But the wind gauge registered 5 m.p.h. (maximum allowable: 4.4 m.p.h.), and the new record...