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Maggie, whose theme song is Never on Sunday, is keeper of the mike, passing it around, encouraging the people sitting beyond the spotlight. "Sing! Sing! You can do it!" Maggie is a head bank teller and has a daughter entering medical school, but she still says, "If Margaret wasn't here, I'd never come in. If you are raised in the South, you don't walk into a bar alone-you just wouldn't be a lady in my mother's opinion." Margaret's bar is not a pickup place...
After years of quiet experience a group of Black faculty and administrators suddenly became aggressive last year, focusing a harsh spotlight on Harvard's minority hiring record. And while the activists have taken care to stress the cooperative facets of their push for affirmative action, the stridency of their statement this year has betrayed a certain impatience with some of their official colleagues...
...freshman is goalkeeper Kristin Abley and she's been thrust right into the spotlight, thanks to the graduation of a four-year starter and the absence of any viable alternative...
...continues this Manichaean probe. More important, it gives Martin his best movie chance yet to spotlight his bravura brand of physical comedy. Watch Roger/Edwina attempt to walk down the street, or go to the bathroom, or make love; each move is a sublime display of schizophrenic coordination. Watch right-side Edwina take control in a courtroom, as left-side Roger falls asleep and the ever-so-feminine Edwina moves "their" body in a grotesquely macho strut. The actor's challenge is impossibly complicated−Steve Martin playing Lily Tomlin playing Roger Cobb−and beautifully realized. The rest...
Lech Walesa was back in the spotlight last week, holding aloft a bouquet of flowers and basking in the cheers of 1,500 supporters gathered near the Lenin Shipyard in the Baltic port of Gdansk. Four years ago, the outspoken electrician had scaled the shipyard gates and assumed the leadership of a strike that gave birth to Solidarity, the Communist bloc's first independent trade union. Solidarity was officially suspended in 1981, when the regime of General Wojciech Jaruzelski declared martial law and detained most of the union's leaders. But as Walesa and his fellow workers showed...