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...share his former boss's conspiratorial view of the press. According to Safire, it was "hatred of the press that slowly, steadily, and then suddenly pulled Nixon down." But Safire does not make clear whether he thinks Nixon's enmity for the press caused him to tap newsmen's phones, unleash leak-plugging plumbers, etc., or whether reporters simply reacted to the hatred by overplaying the Nixon scandal. Either explanation, of course, is simplistic...
...operas were not bygones. The Point offers little that's original in the way of either choreography or music--two areas where the story might have been able to benefit from live production. The mime is for the most part strictly traditional and basic; there are a few abortive tap and soft-shoe sequences; mysterious acrobatic tumbles are used to convey Oblio's long fall down through the Point of No Return. Like this last one, there are a number of excellent ideas that are either lost in overly cautious execution, or cut off when they've hardly begun...
...result of Columbia's inaptitude. Harvard couldn't help but win. The Crimson took the lead from the opening tap, and steadily increased it throughout the contest, breaking the 100-points barrier for the 17th time to school history...
...American World Airways purchasing agent knew a good deal when he saw it. Offered some generous cash incentives for steering a few Pan Am orders to a Miami-based electronics supplier, he grabbed. Then his bosses became suspicious, arranged a legal wire tap and recorded him in the act of negotiating kickbacks. That is when the second good deal came along for the agent-a union-contract clause stipulating that an employee fired for cause must be notified within 30 days of committing the offense. Pan Am did not want to confront the employee until it had prepared an airtight...
...provides far tighter defense against rebounds. When attackers start to charge his net at speeds revving up to 30 m.p.h., Parent begins a familiar ritual: he knocks his stick on his skates, moves a few feet up ice to the edge of the "goal crease," reaches back to tap the top of his stick and the end of his glove against the steel goalposts to get his bearings, drops to a crouch, and challenges the shooter to make the first move. He also flips to the right page in his mental book on players and recalls data on their habitual...