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Hampered by physical limitations, the staging is not as good as it could have been. Although director Douglas Hughes obviously had a tender touch on the play and brought out dimensions which a less perceptive director would not have, the characterizations still were lumpy...
WHATEVER BECAME of Steve Winwood? Ever since the demise of the British rock quartet Traffic when the one-time member suddenly vanished from the rock and roll scene, his fans have been asking this question. Winwood, who recorded his first hit song at the tender age of 14 and went on to rock stardom as a member of such bands as the Spencer Davis Group, Blind Faith and Traffic, adopted the lifestyle of a mysterious recluse and for almost two years remained virtually unheard from...
...Mississippi state legislature in 1975 appropriated $15 million to buy the land from its owner, the Pascagoula Hardwood Co. But the company's stockholders were unwilling to sell. Undaunted, the state joined with the Nature Conservancy, a national environmental group, in another approach. The Conservancy made a tender offer for 75% of the company's stock. This time stockholders in the inactive company accepted, selling their shares for some $13 million. The Conservancy, now in control, promptly liquidated the company, took title to its land and then sold it at cost to the Mississippi Wildlife Heritage Committee...
Only in The Great Gatsby did Scott reconcile the idealism of American culture with its materialism. In these later stories, the fairytales die hard. "Jacob's Ladder," a Pygmalion story and one of the most tender in the book, tells of a rich, rather bored man who makes the sister of a murderess a film star. She offers him her affection but he rejects it until, separated by her success, he wants her; by then, of course, it is too late...
...Tender is the night...