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...Angeles is a city about which almost anything may be said in praise or derogation," Charles Stoker remarked in 1951, "and about which a case can be made out either...
...trivia contests, the questions make the game. There are 6,000 of them, witty, whimsical, wry and, sometimes, off the wall. Sample: Who played for the New York Rangers, the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Knicks in a single season? (Organist Gladys Gooding.) Who was Bram Stoker's most infamous character? (Dracula.) What's the only country crossed by both the equator and Tropic of Capricorn? (Brazil.) What's a newly hatched swan called? (A cygnet.) Who portrayed Tonto on TV? (Jay Silverheels...
Erica Schulman, playing at third singles, dropped the first set but rebounded to take the next two and the match, 3-6, 6-4, 6-2. The freshman was at first unable to anticipate Bruin Nancy Stoker's effective drop shots, but began reading them after the first set, neutralizing her opponent's favorite weapon...
...seven Hammer films and one independent production. Lee is not a very good actor--he's usually much too stiff and rather boring--but something in Dracula tapped the best of him. True, it was an impersonal vampire, a far cry from Langella's more complex lover. But Bram Stoker's Dracula is not much of human being, either. Lee was such a commanding Dracula, statuesque and solemn but with tremendous reserves of strength, capable of exploding at any given instant into blazing, hellish fury. Yet he was also capable of displaying a kind of cynical tenderness that lulled...
...proposals, which must be debated in the all-white South African Parliament but are almost certain to become public policy, are the product of a government-appointed commission on labor reform headed by Nicholas Wiehahn, a labor law expert who once worked on the railways as an apprentice stoker-a job that has always been reserved for whites. The government hopes the proposals will be seen as evidence that South Africa is pushing its labor practices more into line with those being urged on foreign companies there by the Common Market and by the U.S.'s Rev. Leon Sullivan...