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...theater is a medium of illusion, and among the dreams it fosters is that the clock can be turned back and the ravages of time denied. Film and TV close-ups reveal the smallest encroachments of age; the stage keeps a civilized distance between seemingly ageless performers and happily deceived audiences. In the Broadway revival of Frederick Lonsdale's 1923 Aren't We All?, part of the charm is a return to the heyday of drawing-room comedy and, for that matter, of drawing rooms. The chief pleasure is seeing Rex Harrison, 77, and Claudette Colbert, 81, apparently just...
...Speaking of pint-sized ballplayers, the smallest ballplayer ever was midget, Eddie Gaedel, who tipped the scales at 65 pounds and was but 3-ft, 7-in, tall. For ten huge points, talking height and weight into account, who was the biggest regular player (non-pitcher) ever to play...
...obsession with the smallest detail of life, while rejecting a role for market forces and independent decision making, is both the system's political backbone and its crippling weakness. The chief beneficiaries of overcentralization are the nomenklatura, the 750,000 to 1 million members of the bureaucratic elite at the upper reaches of the system. Says Soviet Defector Michael Voslensky, whose 1984 book Nomenklatura: The Soviet Ruling Class described that bureaucratic layer: "All the key positions of the state, cultural, trade, sport, the military, down to the local collective leaders, include members of the nomenklatura . . . It is a class system...
Personality seemed more important than party last week in two West German state elections, both of which produced surprises. In the Saarland, the country's smallest and poorest state, Oskar Lafontaine, 41, a shrewd and charismatic leftist, led the Social Democratic Party (SPD) to an absolute majority in a state assembly that had been dominated by conservatives for three decades. By contrast, in West Berlin, long a stronghold of the SPD, the ^ winner was a conservative, Christian Democratic Mayor Eberhard Diepgen, 43. Two elements common to both votes were the resurgence of the center-right Free Democrats, thought...
Officials at the Boston Athletic Association say only 5,000 entries have been received for next month's Boston Marathon, which means the race may have the smallest field since...