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...bill was a White House dream: It struck a blow for teen smoking, made nice with the soccer moms, and also paid for about $10 billion of extra goodies in Clinton?s 1998 budget. It was a win-win that turned, with a bang of Trent Lott?s gavel, into a lose-lose. And although Newt Gingrich is suddenly making noises about antitobacco in the House, you can bet that whatever emerges from the Republican leadership will be carefully crafted to give Clinton neither money nor plaudits enough to sustain the appearance of second-term activism that Clinton so desperately...
...AUDEN (1907-1973) The most technically adroit poet of his era, he dazzled readers when his works first appeared in the late 1920s. He struck a distinctive postwar note. His landscapes bristled with rusting machinery and ominous border crossings. He could be chatty: "Let me tell you a little story." He shied away from definitive statements, hedging even his love poems with limiting adjectives: "Lay your sleeping head, my love,/ Human on my faithless...
...What struck him most, as his memoir, Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans, attests, was the ceremonial vigor of the people. Ranging from almost European pale to jet black, the Negroes of New Orleans had many social clubs, parades and picnics. With rags, blues, snippets from opera, church music and whatever else, a wide breadth of rhythm and tune was created to accompany or stimulate every kind of human involvement. Before becoming an instrumentalist, Armstrong the child was either dancing for pennies or singing for his supper with a strolling quartet of other kids who wandered New Orleans freshening...
Then magic struck. Guided by Ball's comic brilliance, the show developed the shape and depth of great comedy. Lucy's quirks and foibles--her craving to be in show biz, her crazy schemes that always backfired, the constant fights with the Mertzes--became as particularized and familiar as the face across the dinner table. For four out of its six seasons (only six!), I Love Lucy was the No. 1-rated show on television; at its peak, in 1952-53, it averaged an incredible 67.3 rating, meaning that on a typical Monday night, more than two-thirds...
After seven years with Denishawn, Graham moved to New York City and struck out on her own, giving solo recitals and eventually launching her own company, in 1929. To raise funds, she danced at the opening of Radio City Music Hall, modeled furs and later gave classes in which she taught such actors as Bette Davis and Gregory Peck how to move. (Richard Boone claimed that to die onscreen, he simply did a one-count Graham fall.) But nothing could deflect her from what she believed to be her sacred mission: to "chart the graph of the heart" through movement...