Word: roundabouts
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...world's richest fugitives. Nine weeks ago, TIME's reporter in Bogota, Tom Quinn, received a call from a go-between: "The Cali guys have an announcement to make. Do you want to talk to them?" A week later, after an introductory phone chat and a roundabout journey to the rendezvous, Quinn found himself dining in a modest apartment in downtown Cali, a tidy industrial city in the Cauca Valley currently under occupation by 4,000 Colombian antidrug commandos and a CIA anti-crime task force. His genial host was the chief quarry of all those G-men: Gilberto Rodriguez...
Rowe took a roundabout path through a turbulent Harvard during his years as an undergraduate. The period from 1969 to 1973 saw some of the most rapid change in Harvard's history...
...more questions will be asked during the (probably separate) Senate and House investigations that Senate Republican leader Bob Dole predicted might get under way around May 1. That the House will match the Senate in conducting such hearings became likely -- though not quite certain -- last week, in somewhat roundabout fashion. Henry Gonzalez, chairman of the House Banking Committee, abruptly canceled a hearing into RTC matters last Thursday at which Leach, the ranking minority member, had planned to unveil some results of inquiries by his staff into Whitewater and Madison. In a letter to House Speaker Thomas Foley, Gonzalez ranted about...
...surprise delight, She Loves Me, was far from a guaranteed hit. During its initial run, in a season dominated by Hello, Dolly! and Funny Girl, it failed to recoup its investment. "And then it sat on the shelf for 30 years," says Todd Haimes, artistic director of the nonprofit Roundabout Theater, which mounted the show for a summer run of a couple of months, during which it turned into a runaway hit and a commercial transfer. A key factor: ecstatic reviews from this generation of critics, who are unaccustomed to the musical bounty that greeted their predecessors three decades...
...formerly nonmusical Roundabout is also the aegis for A Grand Night for Singing, which opens this week. In its original incarnation as a black-tie cabaret act at New York City's Rainbow & Stars, it was pleasant, often witty and inventive, but slight. Adding a modicum of costumes and choreography can go only so far in making it fill a bigger stage. "Maybe the number of revivals this season is just a coincidence," says Haimes, "but I hope it's a harking back to the virtues of musicals in their heyday." Worryingly for that hope, She Loves Me is showing...