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...origin of the fabled partnership as well. Here is the regal Sibley, the gossamer Titania of The Dream, reduced to a semislattern with one thing on her mind. Here is the princely Dowell, once her dashing Oberon, as an even more unsatisfying lover, a sexually indeterminate gigolo with Saturday-night fever. At the end of the first, teasingly erotic pas de deux, Dowell effortlessly lifts Sibley aloft and, in one graceful, fluid motion, floats her offstage. The gesture promises a lovers' private communion. Yet, in the end, it turns out to be only funning foreplay: the stranger, it seems...
Maciej Wierzynski, 45, was one of Poland's leading television personalities, the host of Studio Two, a popular Saturday-night mix of entertainment and conversation. Now, as he drives around Warsaw in his battered 1979 Zastawa, he is the city's best-known taxi driver...
...vengefully disrupts the lives of sundry upper-middle-class native-born Americans who have insulted him. Graduating from Saturday-night rental sex, he has a dizzy love affair with Althea Perry, a Vassar-educated poppet from Mount Ivy, N.J., whose allure is not at all dimmed by the fact that she is the daughter of Stavros' immediate boss and chief tormentor at the store. During World War I, Stavros has magnificent visions of a Greater Greece, when the wicked Turks will be laid low as the profits in rugs soar skyward. They almost come true. Meanwhile, the sisters grow...
Statistics do not necessarily bear out this conclusion. Up against weekly Saturday-night competition of soccer highlight and a drama on the BBC, Carson "has averaged a 36% share of the viewing audience," by Grade's reckoning. But Britain's Broadcasters' Audience Research Board lists the top ten programs on each channel. Tonight has not joined the roll call. It seems for once that the viewing public may be speaking as one with the critics...
AMERICA IS SUFFERING from a handgun epidemic; there are already 50 million privately owned pistols, revolvers, and "Saturday-night specials" in the country, and another two million are purchased each year. Every day, 63 Americans are killed with handguns; more than half of those shootings are committed by friends, relatives, or acquaintances...