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...struggle with slowly metastasizing despair. Since Jack and Frank Baker (Jeff and Beau Bridges) are approaching middle age and still playing duo cocktail piano in Seattle's lesser lounges, an air of hopelessness has begun to hang heavy. Stardom is no longer an option; survival, even on the bottom rung, is becoming a question...
...Crimson contined to play UMass tough, but late in the second half Gaudette rung up another tally for the Minutewomen on a breakaway. A few minutes later, Minutewomen forward Kim Eynard found herself open in front of the net and finished off the rainy afternoon's scoring...
...trained bell ringer--usually a roofer from International Service Systems--climbs the tower to sound the chimes by hand. The bells are rung at a signal from the ground crew, which maintains communication with the ringer by telephone...
...Foley moved onto the first rung of the leadership ladder when he was elected chairman of the Democratic caucus. In one of those "accidents" of his career, he was chosen as House whip soon after, when Tip O'Neill's first two choices were not available. As whip, Foley added to his formidable reputation as a coalition builder, which helped him win the majority leader post when Wright climbed to the Speaker's chair...
...West is divided by the question of how, and how much, to help the East bloc. One school, which includes Italian Prime Minister Ciriaco De Mita, is eager to launch a Communist Marshall Plan to deal with the bloc's $131 billion indebtedness -- a 60% increase in three years -- rung up by outmoded and mismanaged state industries. "An expensive irrelevance," snorted the Economist. Critics are wary of throwing money at Eastern Europe without a clear idea of what they should extract in return. Former U.S. National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski wants any assistance to be met by "deliberate movement toward...