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...second act, and it is designed to remind an audience deep into digestion and plot development that there is a musical going on around here. In the otherwise hopeless movie version of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, the 10:40 is called Sidestep, and it falls to that rotund and expert character actor Charles Burning. He plays a Governor of Texas known for his ability to float away from difficult issues in a cloud of obfuscating verbiage. For Burning this obviously represents the opportunity of a hard-working lifetime, and the high-strutting job he does, the pleased-with...
Reagan began the lesson by noting, in a radio broadcast to the folks back home, that not many steps away from where he was seated in the Versailles Palace, the rotund and wise Benjamin Franklin struck a deal with Louis XVI in 1778 that brought vital French help in the Revolution. "Now, I don't want to give you a history lesson," Reagan said, but of course he did just that. He summoned up images of the proud and stubborn Woodrow Wilson, who journeyed to Versailles after World War I, determined to forge a peace that could...
...taken care of, Jessie is nearly 70 and loves exercise classes. Another Carol, an inner-city emergency-room nurse from the Midwest, cannot trust herself with a handful of change near a candy machine. The couple from Park Avenue play backgammon at 7 in the morning; the amiable rotund man is a rock musician, and the lithe woman with him is his secretary, who considerately flew in yet another woman, his girlfriend, "as a reward...
...effort to bolster Core enrollments, Dean Rosovsky announces the public execution of several freshman for failure to pass their Quantitative Reasoning requirement. "If you want to have an educational revolution, you have to break a few eggs," the rotund functionary announces. Cornell, Columbia and Bob Jones University immediately announces capital punishment programs of their...
DIED. Max Scherr, 65, rotund, disorderly founder of the underground newspaper the Berkeley Barb; of cancer; in Berkeley, Calif. Founded in 1965 during the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley, the Barb proselytized for revolution, drugs and "free" sex, peaking at 90,000 readers in 1969, before closing in 1980. Scherr made the paper profitable not only by anticipating the sentiments of the "flower children" but also by paying low wages and raking in revenue from sexually explicit ads purchased by massage parlors...