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...letting him cut in. The usually quiet Kevin Buchberger leaped onto the dance floor and flat-out boogied for the first time in his life, while Kevin Namkoong grabbed an electric guitar and jammed with the band. The prom at Case Western Reserve University had hit full tilt...
...part that displays her to the world. Prince has mastered the musical-comedy art of making everything as exaggerated as Kabuki yet remaining utterly real. Her silences get laughs as big as her lines; her takes are often + no more than a glance or a slight tilt of the head, yet they are as howlingly funny as someone else's pratfall; and every absurd moment is suffused with the pain of an ordinary woman yearning for respectability from a man incapable of giving it. As Prince says, "This is my role. She has my sense of humor. The dialogue tumbles...
...upon the American landscape while remaining largely unknown to the public -- a kind of Stealth Secretary. In speeches, Lujan has appealed for "balance" -- his favorite word -- between environmentalism and economic development. "I am not going to let anyone rape the earth," he insists. But in actuality, his policies distinctly tilt toward industry. "He is not the ideologue that James Watt was, but he certainly is advancing much of the same agenda," asserts James Leape, senior vice president of the World Wildlife Fund. "He is a serious threat to conservation...
Born in frustration after the drubbing of Walter Mondale in 1984 -- and modeled on the conservative Republicans' successful takeover of the G.O.P. -- the D.L.C. seeks to rescue the Democratic Party from its left-leaning tilt. As put by one of its founders, Senator Sam Nunn, "We Democrats can't continue to blame bad candidates, bad tactics and bad luck." The goal, as stated by Clinton, who chaired the council for a year and a half until he resigned an hour before his campaign began last August, is to "develop a new middle ground of thinking on which someone...
...later, that effort culminated in a spectacular success: the casting of one of the world's largest telescope mirrors, a single 6.5-m (21-ft.) circle of glass that sometime in 1994 will be hauled by flatbed truck to the top of Arizona's Mount Hopkins, where it will tilt skyward like a giant Cyclopean...