Word: stingings
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...actor on stage and screen, Michael Moriarty, 40, knows the sting of critics' barbs. But Moriarty, unlike most performers, can retaliate in kind. Last week he starred in a tart, off-Broadway monologue called Dexter Creed, written by himself. Moriarty portrays an acerbic, dyspeptic critic loosely modeled on John Simon, 56, the acerbic, dyspeptic drama critic for New York magazine. Simon considers himself an arbiter of high artistic standards. And clearly Dexter Creed doesn't come up to them. In his review of the play this week, Simon growls: "Cruel and unusual punishment." For whom? The playgoer...
Last fall, the Bruins avenged some of the sting of the previous losses with a come-from-behind victory over the second-seeded Crimson in the Ivy semi-finals. After blanking host Yale, 3-0, in the consolations, the Cantabridgians could only watch from the sidelines as Brown, powered by two Cameron Tuttle tallies, edged top-ranked Princeton, 2-0, in overtime for the championship...
...fine sherry, poring over rare volumes in his study, and reflecting back on the good old days of college. Peter Barber doesn't fit that mold. "The good old days" he remembers here were not always so good, and they are not yet old enough to have lost their sting...
...rate chain," says Allen H. Neuharth. The arrogance of Neuharth's remark comes from his success in building up the profitable Gannett chain of more than 80 newspapers, many of them local monopolies. Most exemplify the new blenderized newspaper, which leaves no mark because it has so little sting. But if newspapers are similar in tone and coverage, who needs to read a second paper to balance the first? Newspaper readership has been declining for years. Young people read fewer newspapers than their parents. The drop in circulation is sharpest on the second newspaper in town...
...that point the sting got stung. "Put your hands on the dashboard," ordered Walsh. "You're under arrest for attempted bribery." The FBI arrived to find five Bridgeport detectives and a Walsh-invited press contingent who were busily comparing Marra's electronic devices with their own. They had been listening over Walsh's identical body mike from across the street. The Feds demanded Marra, the bug and the cash. "I politely told them where to go," says Walsh. Marra went to jail. An embarrassed FBI was left muttering darkly about investigating who tipped off Walsh. "I smelled...