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...show begins right where the last one left off, with the plucky orphan gamboling around a Christmas tree with her adoptive plutocrat. In steams a social-welfare commissioner with a bad attitude, played by Alene Robertson as a cross between Bella Abzug and Shelley Winters at their coarsest. The adoption is invalid, she tells Daddy Warbucks, because he doesn't have a wife. The rest of the show is devoted to marrying him off and extracting him from the tentacles of the adhesive and ambitious commissioner. Along the way father faces financial ruin, daughter runs away and turns hobo...
...excitement and relief. So much of the anti-gay legal and social argument is based on the premise that it is a learned behavior and an immoral choice. This would prove them wrong! That feeling lasted about a minute and a half. The notion that Pat Robertson might look at a chart of DNA and say, "Well, I'll be; I've been wrong all this time. I'd better send an apology, maybe a small gift to Larry Kramer . . ." is absurd. Indeed, conservatives have already come forward with their own interpretations of the new findings; a representative...
...right refused to go away? In Oregon, members of Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition continue to make inroads in the state Republican Party, losing the chairmanship by a slim margin to a "moderate" who is pro-life. That's what you might expect in a state that, once you get past the coffee bars of Portland, is still the Wild West. But in New York City, the nation's largest St. Patrick's Day parade took place without a gay contingent, a judge having ruled that its longtime sponsors were free to exclude one. The liberal Babylon also decided...
...variety. Organizers expected hundreds of thousands of marchers, maybe 1 million. Advance signs pointed to a huge turnout: hotel rooms in Washington were all but unobtainable, and so were airplane reservations from some parts of the U.S. "Our trains have been crowded since Tuesday," said Amtrak spokesman Howard Robertson. "Every available resource is going to be used. This is bigger than the Inauguration...
...Andrew Robertson, a graduate student in the History of Science, recalls Rosenkrantz as a confidence-building and friendly advisor when he first arrived in the department after receiving a degree in engineering...