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...Sunday stroll down Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard (but everybody still calls it 125th Street) between Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard (Seventh Avenue) and Frederick Douglass Boulevard (Eighth Avenue) takes the visitor past an armory of corrugated metal doors drawn protectively over shop facades. But on each of these doors a street genius named Franco has painted Pop-art murals appropriate to the goods sold inside: an underwater paradise for the fish shop, a spangled Eiffel Tower for the travel agency, a chain- laden Mr. T for the jewelry store. Midblock stands the legendary Apollo Theater, which brings Harlem...
...city's worst crime area. In any case, fear is no excuse for missing out on Harlem's cultural and historical bounty. Prudent visitors, black or white, can ride a tour bus or a subway uptown during the day, drive or call for a cab at night, stroll with a worthy purpose on a Sunday-go-to- meeting afternoon. They will feel as comfortable on Amateur Night, with its superefficient security staff, as they would at Carnegie Hall. They will be made as welcome at a restaurant like Sylvia's as they would at an aunt's dinner table. They...
...collegiate athletics, the Harvard hockey program is an refreshing as a stroll along the shore in Kennebunkport, Me. But there are other teams, other people, other stories just as invigorating for the NCAA...
...probation in the eyes of the Republican hard right and wary of appearing susceptible to Gorbomania. Some members of the new team seem to relish the chance to sound tougher than their predecessors. A number of Bush aides have privately derided Ronald Reagan for his arm-in-arm stroll through Red Square with Gorbachev at their summit meeting last June and for proclaiming the Evil Empire a thing of the past...
...been the richest source of her daughter's comic material. "Do you know what my mother said to me on the opening night of Uncommon Women?" Wasserstein asks rhetorically. " 'Wendy, where did you get those shoes?' " When Isn't It Romantic was playing off-Broadway, Wasserstein's parents would stroll over to the theater and canvass the crowd. "My mother would call and say, 'Oh, what well-dressed people,' " Wasserstein recalls. "She was proud of me because someone with a long skirt went to see my play...