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...perhaps too definitive for all but the most dedicated Pepysians? The editors have thought of that too. The solution is a splendid one-volume abridgment with lots of color pictures: The Illustrated Pepys. As the Victorian editors represented their times, the modern editors reflect theirs: the political history is much condensed, the bawdy parts all included...
...Derby, the Preakness and-by the length of a football field-the Belmont Stakes, that was forgotten. Racing had gone 25 years between Triple Crowns, making the feat seem mystical. Then, at a gallop, came Triple Crown Winners Seattle Slew (1977) and Affirmed (1978), and other demonstrably splendid horses of the '70s: Spectacular Bid, Alydar, Ruffian...
...intent, said Gardner, was to provoke "whatever is necessary to get the people of this country to think about this problem." Despite some reservations about oversimplification, many educators were pleased. Observed Chester Finn, professor of education and public policy at Vanderbilt University: "The commission's report is a splendid codification of what I've regarded as the conventional wisdom of the past five years. It gives these ideas the kind of respect they deserve." The teachers unions also endorsed the overall goals, although they quickly cautioned that longer school days would have to be negotiated at the bargaining...
...garner high praise. She does well on her solo "Adelaide's Lament," and it is only when she shares the stage with Hughes that her charm begins to fads. The Hot Box chorus line suffers a similar fate. Their adequate cabaret numbers get lost in the shadows of the splendid acting...
Varii Capricci finds both soloists in splendid form, but paradoxically playing against type; Ashton seems to have in mind a parody not only of his own romantic aesthetic but also of the origin of the fabled partnership as well. Here is the regal Sibley, the gossamer Titania of The Dream, reduced to a semislattern with one thing on her mind. Here is the princely Dowell, once her dashing Oberon, as an even more unsatisfying lover, a sexually indeterminate gigolo with Saturday-night fever. At the end of the first, teasingly erotic pas de deux, Dowell effortlessly lifts Sibley aloft...