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...more than superficial. Her notes sometimes wobble with Judy's vibrato, and she has the same warming urgency and involvement in her performance. Says Singer Gail Martin, Dean Martin's daughter and Liza's childhood friend: "Her mannerisms are like her mother's. The gestures, that whole nervous thing???not quite getting the words out, and the fingers all over the place...
...jury's stern judgment came as a shock. It was as though the verdict had finally brought the ultimate horror of My Lai home to Americans, and acceptance of that horror was agonizing. The widespread initial reaction to My Lai?that no American soldier could have done such a thing???in many cases changed to the notion that Calley had only been doing his duty. In a new book called Sanctions for Evil, the title of one chapter sardonically sums up the horrendous confusion: "It Never Happened and Besides They Deserved It." With an astounding, indeed sickening distortion of moral...
Another school of architects feels that a building ought to tell what is going on beneath its skin. The antic conglomeration of bumps, bulges and concavities of the Morris Mechanic Theater in Baltimore fairly shouts that the play's the thing???and also divulges stair towers and mechanical equipment spaces. With its fortress style, the Boston city hall states another simple truth: that city governments are under constant attack...
Though he had once described India's economy as "the world's greatest example of functioning anarchy," he was welcomed as the biggest thing???in many respects?since Lord Irwin, later Viscount Halifax, who had traveled around the country as Viceroy 30 years earlier with an 8-ft. bed. "How tall are you?" Galbraith was asked soon after his ar rival. The reply: "I am the tallest man in the world...
...nervous like a race horse," agrees Rubinstein. "I can only do some silly thing???sip orange juice, cut my nails, make a little exercise on the piano. But once I pass the door on to the stage, all my energies get together and I become as quiet as possible. I always look for my receiver at the beginning of a concert. I sincerely believe in magnetic emanations?ESP, mediums?all of it. Once I find my receiver?it can be anyone, a sexy young girl, an old man?I play to him. The rest of the audience assists...