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...star Jackie Gleason (who died in 1987) were a study in the metaphysics of comedy, a working-class yin and yang who made that sitcom a peak experience of American pop culture. Gleason as bus driver Ralph Kramden was huge, bombastic, extravagant with feeling. Meadows as his wife was slight, cool, drolly down-to-earth. She imbued Alice with a prefeminist feistiness that rendered Ralph's threats of domestic violence ridiculous. Yet she was also tender in a worldly wise way, always ready to forgive Ralph his latest scheme to escape hardscrabble Brooklyn...
...People on the team were tired from Sunday's matches, not so much physically as mentally," Ben-Shachar said. "It was an emotionally draining weekend." He believes the slight lack of focus against Dartmouth was a direct result of the excitement and climax on Sunday and the transition of going back to less exciting matches...
...drive Monday, climbing 33.60 points to 5407.59 on the day, more than recouping Friday's 31-point loss. Investors were encouraged by the Fed's quarter-point interest rate cut last week. The New York Stock Exchange composite index rose 2.17 to 342.26. Advancing issues led decliners by a slight margin on the Big Board, and volume was a moderate 377.74 million shares. The Nasdaq composite index climbed 11.23 to 1,083.34, and the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index also edged up 5.58 points to 641.43. The American Stock Exchange's market value index rose 1.73 to close...
...fundraisers for Indiana Reps. John Hostettler and Mark Souder after the two joined 13 other Republicans on Friday opposing a plan to end the federal shutdown, despite the Speaker's emotional appeal for support. The bill passed easily 401-17 but Gingrich isn't forgetting the slight, altering his schedule to favor those who voted with him. Gingrich aide Tony Blankley confirmed that the votes led the Speaker to dump the fundraisers...
...Tough" is not a word usually associated with Houston or her music. "Safe" and "homogenized" are, though not always fairly. She has a towering, dynamic voice, but when she sings material that's too slight for her skills (such as Love Is a Contact Sport), it's an unseemly mismatch, like Grant Hill dunking on a fifth-grader. But when Houston takes on a tune worthy of her gifts (like You Give Good Love), the result is something winged, almost seraphic. What's more, with the huge success of 1992's The Bodyguard--the movie made more than $400 million...