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...fact that a Robertson is even a potential candidate confirms the extraordinary power and influence amassed in the past decade by the shrewd, colorful headliners of Gospel TV. While impressing some as shallow and vulgar popularizers, they bring real inspiration and solace to others. Their past struggles in low-paid Gospel circuits bespeak a deep commitment, whatever skepticism might be aroused by their present enjoyment of stardom's rewards. They have changed the face of television; they may be gradually altering the very nature of American Christianity...
Arena Stage has long been receptive to avant-garde European writers and directors. In rescuing Restoration from relative obscurity (the only previous U.S. production, in 1985, played five performances at the 99-seat Illusion Theater in Minneapolis), the company has proved especially shrewd. The show displays both the adaptability of Arena's theater-in-the-round space-- actors rise through the floor and almost to the ceiling, musicians are suspended in a metal-mesh box above the stage--and the strength of its newly expanded ensemble. Stanley Anderson is by turns uproarious, winsome and infuriating as the despicable Lord...
...shrewd and sudden pre-emptive strike, the G.O.P. leaders pushed their followers to vote against what is known as "the rule," the procedure by which the House was supposed to debate tax reform. The White House and Democratic chiefs wanted to hold a simple up-or-down vote on the Rostenkowski bill, as well as on a Republican alternative that was given no chance of passage. At a G.O.P. strategy session, however, Whip Trent Lott of Mississippi urged, "Let's kill this snake before it gets out of the hole." On the House floor, Republicans moved to do just that...
...reputation as a flop mill. Under the ownership of Denver Oilman Marvin Davis, the studio churned out such clunkers as Rhinestone, which paired Sylvester Stallone and Dolly Parton, and Blame It on Rio, which featured Michael Caine at the beach. But Murdoch has the good fortune of inheriting a shrewd studio boss, Diller, who joined Fox in October 1984 after heading Paramount, where he turned out a stream of hits that included Terms of Endearment and Flashdance. One early result of Diller's stewardship is Commando, the hit film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, which has grossed $27.1 million in its first...
...important battles of Family and Friends are fought over love, and in this arena Brookner is shrewd enough to know that the Geneva convention does not apply. "The rules are really crude," she said in a recent issue of the trade magazine Publishers Weekly. "The rules are: Who dares, wins. This is bad news for people who don't dare and who see others win. That's the central problem, I think. I think it's the matter nobody gets completely right." Not in life, perhaps; but this art historian who dared write novels has found the solution in literature...