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...church for the 90-minute service. Outside, in an emotional farewell, some 20,000 blacks filled the streets. As the flower-draped coffin was loaded into the hearse, they raised their fists in the black-power salute of the A.N.C. and chanted in the Xhosa language, "She is a soldier." Said the Rev. Allan Boesak: "Molly continues in death what she did all her life. She brings us together...
...discipline a guy like that." At one point this season there was some question whether Ditka and McMahon were even talking. "That's ridiculous," Ditka said. "Just the other day I told him on the sidelines, 'Shut up.' " But when the Rams game fell on a blowy day at Soldier Field, Ditka trusted McMahon to come out throwing to his breezy receivers like Willie Gault, the track star, and Dennis McKinnon, the football player. On the other hand, when Ditka dispatched a draw play in the third quarter, McMahon snorted and whipped a touch down pass to Gault. Los Angeles...
Twenty-one years, two Tony awards and five movies later, Kline, 38, has established himself as one of the most diverse and appealing actors of his generation, at home on Broadway as a runaway soldier in Shaw's Arms and the Man or a rapacious, loony buccaneer in The Pirates of Penzance, onscreen as a psychotic lover in Sophie's Choice or as a nice-guy running-shoe entrepreneur in The Big Chill. Eager for acceptance as a classical performer, he has performed Richard III and Henry V for Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival in Central Park. Last...
...with his emotions rising in the heat of an actual performance, he delivered. "We have waited for more than 50 years to hear Horowitz," said Nadia Tsiganova, who had stayed in line all night to get her ticket. "He is magnificent." Yuri, a young soldier on his way to Afghanistan, exclaimed reverently, "I will carry the memory of this afternoon with me always." Reviewing the program of Scarlatti, Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Schubert, Liszt and Chopin, Critic Dmitri Bashkirov wrote in Sovietskaya Rossiya, "He indisputably remained the brightest bearer of the Russian performing tradition. I think there was not one person...
...that the White House was orchestrating a secret war to subvert their Marxist-oriented government, there on Nicaraguan TV screens was living proof of their allegations: a burly, rugged-looking, redheaded American named Eugene Hasenfus. The prisoner looked the part he played. Hasenfus, 45, a gung-ho patriot and soldier of fortune, had been captured after parachuting from a U.S. plane that was shot down by Nicaraguan soldiers while on a mission to deliver arms to contra rebels in southern Nicaragua. Three other men, two Americans and a Nicaraguan, were killed in the crash...