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After watching McEvoy and Devin battle evenly in preseason tryouts, Cleary decided to platoon the two netminders by having them alternate starts...
Limousines glide up to the curb on Manhattan's East Side, disgorging a platoon, perhaps even a battalion, of the richest inhabitants of the planet. A seasoned observer estimates that the crowd rushing inside includes at least 100 people worth more than $50 million apiece. The fall art-auction season -- the "shark feed," as Connoisseur Editor Thomas Hoving calls it -- is at gavel pitch, and once again great works, and some not so great, are going, going . . . gone...
...remembers when the crusade was still only a platoon foray and full of peril. "Three hours I spent there," she says of one lonely outing. "And the kids would be crying and the parents would be crying and I was crying. And at the end of it I remember the young person who was conducting said, 'Well, I'm sure, Mrs. Reagan, you'd like to get up and say a few words.' Well, I was so teary and drained, I thought, 'Good night, how am I ever going to get up and say anything?' I struggled...
...wonder: on April 23 a replacement judge was mysteriously shot and wounded. Garcia Meza, 53, has done nothing to dissipate the atmosphere of intimidation. When he unexpectedly strode into court last month to defend himself, ending four years of exile and hiding, he was escorted by a platoon of soldiers. He now lives in an army garrison outside the city of Sucre, where the trial is being held...
...Sunday night, the beginning of production week for The Tempest. The cast is tense yet confident, like a seasoned platoon preparing to return to the front. Tonight we must finish the cue-to-cue work, synchronizing the lighting changes with the actors' scenes on stage. The director, Patrick Bradford, is trying to decipher his notes, hastily scrawled during last night's technical run-through. Apparently my performance was flawless, for none of the five lines I deliver are commented upon...