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...Blodgett, Jr., was on hand along with Derek Bok to participate in the pool's opening ceremonies. Princeton came into the meet with a string of six consecutive Eastern Championships along with two Ivy titles. Harvard, meanwhile, was led by freshman Bobby Hackett and rookie Coach Bernal...
Many Eastern exports are now high-profile performers, including Czechoslovakia's Smetana Quartet, a string ensemble that earns $5,000 a performance in Western cities. Czechoslovak Hockey Player Jaroslav Pouzar, 36, helped Canada's Edmonton Oilers win three Stanley Cup championships. Though most East bloc talents are more modestly gifted, Western clients are usually delighted with them. Says a Viennese cabaret manager who hires Polish dancers: "They are better trained than Westerners, work longer and cost less." A four-man Prague dance band called Bob's Combo belts out tunes in English, German and even Japanese aboard the Royal Caribbean...
...Graves (Mysterious Press; 184 pages; $15.95) is not the first novel to deal with the impact of AIDS and will surely not be the last, but it will probably rank with the best. It begins with Brandstetter's discovery of a corpse on his doorstep, the latest in a string of victims who were all dying of the virus already. His effort to unravel what turns out to be two related mysteries takes him to the homes of abandoned victims, grieving families and lovers, co- workers deep into denial. Their quicksand feelings of fear mingled with shame and rage...
...would suspect it, but those barely audible hums are the stuff dream musicals are made of. Out of them, Lloyd Webber, 39, has spun a worldwide empire unmatched in the history of musical theater. With one exception, the ill-starred Jeeves of 1975, Lloyd Webber has scored an unbroken string of triumphs over the past 15 years. His most financially successful show, Cats, has had 19 productions in cities ranging from Budapest to Tokyo to Sydney to Stockholm; eleven of them are still running. Cats has racked up total box-office receipts of more than $425 million...
...these traditions is the expense account, by which the wealth of the nation is funneled out of the hands of the worker via the conduit of large corporations and is then frittered away by hedonistically juvenile executives. The second tradition is that of the star schmooze, in which second string critics from minor newspapers in unimportant cities have lunch with celebrities while asking questions like, "So, what was it like working with Eddie?" as though Mr. Murphy were a mutual friend...