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Duke recently won a British award for Most Promising New Actor. At 29, the boy seems a bit long in the tooth for rookie of the year; in the best Wodehouse tradition, one wishes him finer fortune in sturdier stuff. Carry on, Duke. - By Stefan Kanfer
Faye Dunaway belongs to this breed. After a 17-year absence in Hollywood, she returns to Broadway's Little Theater with a vehicle no sturdier than balsa wood, but she never lets the audience forget that she is driving it hell-bent on its voyage to nowhere. Author William Alfred, Abbott Lawrence Lowell professor of the humanities at Harvard, launched her on the road to stardom in his play Hogan's Goat, about political shenanigans among the Brooklyn Irish in the 1890s. Now back on the same turf, Alfred mounts a sentimental archaeological dig for nostalgic relics dating...
...scarcely ever read a book-but, for a letter to an intimate friend, he had few equals." He loved music, and entertained his friends by playing the harpsichord and the viola da gamba. "Liberal, thoughtless, and dissipated," he called himself, and admired (without particularly envying it) the application of sturdier and more evenminded talents like that of Sir Joshua Reynolds, the president of the Royal Academy. "Painting & Punctuality mix like Oil & Vinegar," he reflected...
...worth of federal loan guarantees to rescue Chrysler from bankruptcy. During hearings on the legislation, industry representatives presented evidence indicating that Ford and GM were not far behind in the negative profits race. The reason: American buyers were passing by domestic gas-guzzling cars of dubious longevity for smaller, sturdier imports, causing sales of previously popular models to fall by as much...
...European lines fly almost exclusively advanced, longer-range versions of the plane, known as the series 30 and 40, rather than the older, shorter-range series 10, which was involved in the Chicago crash. The Europeans claim that the pylon and wing attachments in the long-haul versions are sturdier than those used on the original model, although, in fact, they carry heavier engines than the ones used on the series...