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...facts are plain. Walter Mondale won the first debate [NATION, Oct. 15]. Ronald Reagan will win the election...
...that the press would hear about Henry's if Henry's was not closed by July 1. The first week in July, the Miami Herald showed up: "Henry's Hideaway is no ordinary, run-of-the-mill bar. In addition to Scotch on the rocks or plain cranberry juice, the thirsty can get a few holy words from the proprietor." Then came the television crews. Dare not to be novel in the dog days of summer, the parishioners quickly learned, getting a little testy. By fall the thing had blown over...
...surrendered to the Manhattan district attorney's office after charges of promoting prostitution had been brought against her, Barrows, 32, had allegedly run a 20-girl, $1 million-a-year prostitution ring, one of the largest known to New York police. In her own way, the blond, slim, plain-faced patrician was as fastidious and thrifty as any of her Puritan ancestors. Recruiting models, actresses, some housewives and students from escort service ads and personal contacts, Barrows conducted grueling interviews. Besides good looks, she insisted upon intelligence and, above all, "eloquence." The chosen few were rated...
...shirt-sleeved civilian representatives of the guerrillas' political arm, the Democratic Revolutionary Front (F.D.R.), the government's main adversaries in the Salvadoran conflict.* The rebel group followed Duarte's contingent inside the church, and the doors closed behind them. The two sides sat down at a plain wooden table beneath a crucifix and a quotation painted on the blue wall that admonished COME TO ME, THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE WEARY. Thus began the first formal meeting between the two opposing forces in the bloody war that has taken more than 50,000 lives...
...heart and his compulsive excellence set him apart from other mortals more than his prominent proboscis. Jacobi, for all his energetic resourcefulness, has neither the swagger nor the stature for the part. He commandeers the stage with his ambition to fill the role, but his shortcomings are as plain as the nose on Cyrano's face. -By Richard Corliss