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...best surprise of the production is Prince Hal, originally to have been played by Richard Thomas, who withdrew to work on a television film. His successor is Chris Sarandon, whose Hal turns out to be just splendid. I had seen him on stage and screen in modern parts, but nothing prepared me for the admirably trained classical actor he proves to be. Sarandon is now 40, but he has no trouble convincing us that he is a young man half his age, right down to the way he lolls on a bench He speaks clearly, clearly, and musically...
...Democrats cannot agree on a new and more relevant philosophy by 1984, they will have missed a splendid opportunity. With a conservative Republican in the White House, the Democrats do not have to reward their traditional constituencies with new programs. "Reagan is absolutely ensuring us that we have all the blacks, environmentalists, women and labor union members," claims Jim Johnson, an aide to Mondale. "We don't have to be on the frontier issues any more." Thus the party is free to overhaul shopworn policies and get them in line with the demands and limits of the 1980s. "Voters...
...complete set of Fleer Ted Williams cards, all autographed highlights the three wall shrine dotted with framed newspapers and magazine covers marking milestones in the Splendid Splinter's career. Perhaps the most valuable item is Ted Williams official birth certificate, which Kelly secured through "intricate methods." Williams himself plans to stop in later this summer. Kelly says, because among other things, be wants to see the clock with his portrait on it. "It's one of the things he's never seen." Kelly explains...
Other highlights include double-time versions of "Let Me Go" and "Just My Imagination," both off of Some Girls (1978) and refreshing in their disorganization. Richards does splendid work on "Time is on My Side," but someone goofed by not mixing his vocals in louder. Keef's incomparable moaning is only barely audible behind Jagger...
...generation, the answer seems to have been no. They did not flame out young, like Keats and Shelley. But few of them enjoyed their later years, and they are all gone now: Berryman, Robert Lowell, Randall Jarrell, Dylan Thomas, Theodore Roethke and Delmore Schwartz. They left behind some splendid poems and some terribly sad histories of alcoholism, mental illness, despair and suicide...