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There are few signs of restiveness. Indeed, this singular young woman is hard to fault. She keeps up an easy, loving relationship with her father, from whom, presumably, she gets both her amiability and her height (Frank Shields is about...
...Shepard has repudiated this production at off-Broadway's Public Theater and launched a steamy vendetta against Producer Joseph Papp. Certain errors of perception and direction are quite evident, but enough of the true Shepard is here to do him honor. Papp has certainly retained Shepard's singular gift for lunging simultaneously at the jugular and the funny bone. -By T.E. Kalem
...Chance and the gentle and unapologetic Watching the Wheels from the new album, or the gorgeous seasonal anthem, Happy Xmas (War Is Over), which he recorded with Ono in 1972-kept the standard high and his conscience fine-tuned. The political songs were all personal, the intimate songs all singular in their fierce insistence on making public all issues of the heart, on working some common moral out of private pain. Rock music is still benefitting from lessons that Lennon fought hard for, then passed along. All his music seemed to be torn from that small, stormy interior where...
...only thing most Portuguese seemed to agree on was the singular loss in the death of Sá Carneiro, a diminutive (5 ft. 4 in.) man who as a political fighter always seemed taller than he really was. Friends and opponents alike recalled that the young Sá Carneiro braved catcalls in the National Assembly to speak out for freedom in the dying days of Portuguese dictatorship. Intolerant of criticism in office, however, he drifted rightward. His campaign for Soares Carneiro was based on a threat to resign as Prime Minister. Justifying such a potentially destabilizing tactic, Sá Carneiro...
Through all the financial and political scandals in Italy's recent history, the national financial police, the paramilitary Guardia di Finanza, has always been regarded as a singular bastion of rectitude. Thus when retired General Raffaele Giudice, the Guardia's esteemed commander from 1974 to 1978, was recently jailed as a suspected ringleader in a $2.2 billion oil-tax fraud, it was rather like discovering that Michelangelo painted by numbers. Last week, as the scandal spread, four other high-ranking Guardia officers were put under investigation, and Giudice's former chief of staff disappeared before he could...