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Paris' venerable Olympia concert hall has never seen anything quite like the stir created by Woody Allen and his New Orleans Jazz Band. It's been like that at every stop on Allen's 14-city, 23-day European tour, which ends in London on March 18. In Madrid he needed a police escort to get in from the airport amid what El Mundo called Woodymania. In Barcelona more than 300 autograph seekers mobbed him at the stage entrance. "Woody's having a ball," says his banjo player and musical guru, Eddie Davis. "He's kind of stunned...
Where are the borders between those roles? In the great conflation, by what standards is a controversialist-politician to be judged? Hence the further problem: Does Pat Buchanan mean what he says, or is he merely putting on a great show of fire breathing and machete work to stir up the audience, as he was paid to do on Crossfire? Does it matter whether he means what he says? The question may be as silly as trying to judge the intentions of an adolescent who strikes matches one after another and tosses them toward piles of dry leaves...
...reverse frisson that operates when a star of one galaxy travels to another, Diane Keaton's visit to the Vermeer exhibition created more of a stir than the First Lady does when she ventures out. Later, my daughter Courtney spotted the actress having dinner at Restaurant Nora but, having excellent manners as a result of small deprivations, knew better than to say hello. But then Keaton, proving that occasionally restraint pays off, came to our table. She watches Capital Gang and is pleased that there is a woman willing to battle puffed-up men on television. For our part...
...Directorate', calling Lipka's material "significant." During the 60's and 70's, Lipka allegedly photographed and stole classified documents and then sold them to Soviet agents. He apparently quit because he wasn't paid highly enough. TIME'S Douglas Waller says the case "will not produce the same stir as the Ames case. Whatever Lipka gave the Soviets is now long out of date." This is not likely to encourage leniency on the part of the U.S. Government, Waller notes. "Lipka could get a fairly stiff sentence. Arrested spies are likely to plead guilty to avoid public trials which...
...This little group opposed to the project is managing to stir up concern by repeatedly making assertions that are completely unfounded," said Parsons...