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...Kopit's wry premise is to take the rhetorical excesses of ambition -- people saying they would slit their wrists, eat excrement or give up an intimate body part to achieve some goal -- and render them literally. His hustlers from the fringe of the movie business (Joseph Ragno and Bruce Adler) are more than a little crazy. Even crazier is the fact that their self- abasement might make them as rich as they think. The production hit a long dead spot in the second act, where Julianne Moore could not find much real in the underwritten role of a rock star...
...what Sherry's lawyer Robert Gaynor called "a major victory," Judge Thomas Ragno spared Sherry from deportation, which would have prevented him from returning to this country without an official waiver...
...making "competence" the theme of his campaign, but fails to back up his concern with concrete programs. James F. Fitzgerald, who has served off and on the committee for the past thirty years, favors promotion from within and return to neighborhood schools over the racial balance plan. Nicholas R. Ragno turns every issue into one of "saving the taxpayer's money," and Robert A. Carroll has declined to talk to reporters...
...issues in this election basically center around the past performances of the various candidates and some vague promises for the future. Cutting expenditures and saving tax dollars is a favorite concern of most of the Independents. Incumbents Fitzgerald and Donald Fantini and challengers David P. Kennedy and Nicholas R. Ragno all base their campaigns on this issue--citing, in particular, high administrative salaries with further raises proposed. Falling enrollments fuel their arguments against the Convention slate, which has supported costly construction projects and designed several new administrative positions...
...challenging Independents, David J. Holway, Kennedy and Ragno, are hesitant about committing themselves to one side or the other. They say they are perplexed by the residency requirement and cautious about Superintendent Lannon. Holway and Kennedy have taken revitalization of neighborhood schools, especially the elementary school, as their personal causes. Kennedy and Ragno are first-time candidates while Holway finished a strong seventh two years ago and poses the greatest threat to the incumbents...