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Stealing the Show. The next night Lyndon returned to the convention to deliver his acceptance speech. But Humphrey spoke first, and in the process stole the show from the old show-stealer himself. Lyndon sat in the presidential box, by turns looking statesmanlike, preoccupied, annoyed, and just plain bored. On the rostrum Humphrey all but brought down the rafters...
...puts a Gaelic glint into an Irish boy's eyes. The 41 works include sketches of his fellow rebels in the Ashcan school and the well-known painting of a Chinese worker, Jim Lee. A nude that raised eyebrows at the 1913 Armory show is still a scene stealer. Through April...
...soprano in Adriana is to seize the stage before the tenor has a chance to plant himself with arms thrown wide to uncoil one of the soaring rhapsodies that billow through the length of the opera. The trick is particularly tough when the tenor is as talented a scene stealer as Franco Corelli, but Tebaldi handled the job nicely. When she came on in Act I in an ivory gown and red hair, she looked so startlingly unlike the matronly Tebaldi of other years that even her devoted claque paused in surprise for the space of a hand-beat before...
...third way for Britain-the Liberal Party. Small but spunky, it has not held power since the Lloyd George Cabinet in World War I. But in the past year, the Liberals have made impressive gains in local elections and in national by-elections proved to be a dangerous stealer of votes from both Labor and the Tories. The big parties now face the possibility that in a general election the Liberals may hold the balance of power...
...stealer of brides our hero...