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GROUND ZERO by Andrew Holleran (Morrow; $16.95). A tragicomic tour, in the form of essays, through Manhattan's once bustling gay night spots, now somber, subdued and charged with the emotional fallout of AIDS...
...what of Ronald Reagan, a President normally so lavish in his displays of heartfelt sentiment? On that somber Sunday, July 3, Reagan dispatched a formal five-paragraph note to Iran expressing "deep regret." The President told aides he considered this an apology that satisfied the nation's obligations, but his public comments were measured in the extreme. Reagan allowed that the shooting down of the Iranian airbus was a "great tragedy," but soon belittled even that cliched description by also calling it an "understandable accident...
...Senate endorsed the plan over protests by Maya Lin, designer of the original monument, and Washington's Commission of Fine Arts. The statue of the nurse would not be the first one to compromise the somber dignity of Lin's wall of black granite. As a response to complaints from veterans' groups, "traditional" statues of infantrymen -- portraying one black, one white and one Native American soldier -- were added to the site in 1984, along with a flag standard...
...project estimate that the show's design elements alone cost nearly $4 million, including about $1 million each for costumes, sound and the elaborate hydraulically powered sets. About a third of Jujamcyn's $500,000 investment was spent on repainting its Virginia Theater black, to suit Carrie's somber theme, and on installing electrical wiring for effects like the laser barrage at the climax, when Carrie burns down her school...
...wasn't surprised by Harvard," a somber Princeton Coach Dave Benjamin said. "We've always had close matches. I definitely didn't think it would be decided in singles. If they had played like this all season, they would have gone undefeated. We were beaten by the better team...