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...games run, and the reveries flow. Out in Indiana, in Butler University's Hinkle Fieldhouse this Monday night, the 1954 teams from Milan and Muncie will join in a reunion. Bobby Plump will be there. Yes, Bobby Plump. For those few deprived Americans who did not see the movie Hoosiers, Bobby is the kid who made the shot in the final seconds that won the state championship for Milan, the smallest Indiana town (pop. 1,000) ever to achieve the title. A Larry Bird he never became. At 5 ft. 10 in., he sold insurance and financial services and never...
...energized younger British Modernists in the 1900s like Spencer Frederick Gore and Harold Gilman. You can still see his mark today, on the work of figurative artists like Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach and even Francis Bacon. Sickert's "brown world" of rented rooms in Camden Town, with their plump, sweaty nudes, sprawled on iron bedsteads, dense and claustrophobic, runs into the younger painters', its solidly constructed Realism forming a bridge across the light turbulence of derivative avant- gardism in so much British...
...catastrophic Christmas Carol that is the funniest scene on any American stage this year, echoes the uproarious mangling of Romeo and Juliet in Nicholas Nickleby. Props and gimmicks fail. The set collapses. One actor forgets all his lines in terror. And Tiny Tim, played all through rehearsals by a plump pubescent brat who has held the role for years and now nearly outweighs Bob Cratchit, decamps a day before opening, leaving the middle-aged "inspector" to inherit the part...
...Supreme Court Justices as depicted in giant caricature masks (one is black and another female, emphatically not reality in 1931), and an oblique gay inflection has been wrung out of one bit of dialogue. But most of the performers make no headline reference -- the dim Vice President is plump and scruffy, not boyishly cute -- and the big production numbers feel almost antique...
...plump target was the tradition of civilian control of the military. If only the bureaucrats had stayed out of the way, victims complained, the soldiers might have got the job done. As upwards of 20,000 troops flooded into what Dade County officials call the war zone, the army had clearly won new allies -- unlike the haggard representatives of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Soldiers bivouacked on the ground, sharing prepackaged MRES (meals ready to eat) and carrying groceries for tired refugees. Day and night, they put up tents, folded linens and stuffed welcome packages of toiletries for tent cities...