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...open question as to whether it is this bastardization of human dialogue or the ridiculous manner in which the characters speak their lines which makes watching Dancers more painful than twirling in a pair of toe shoes. Suffice it to say, ballet dancers are taught to speak with their bodies rather than their mouths for good reason...
...Hilton ballroom is sold out, and Cosby, after starting slowly, leaves the crowd howling at his routine on trifocal eyeglasses. In his spacious dressing room between shows, he wolfs rigatoni puttanesca and taps his toe to a jazz tape by Slim Gaillard while entertaining a stream of callers. A casino manager from Reno has flown in with a wholesale price book for sterling flatware; Cosby wants 70 place settings, and he wants a better price than the $98,000 he was quoted retail. He takes a call from a wine merchant about some cases of Chateau Petrus, but tells...
Especially that of Samuel Tibbetts, summa cum laude from Stanford with extracurricular honors in Marxism. Tibbetts is a study in sociopathology, a graphic mug shot of the intellectual as free radical: corrosive, amoral, tyrannical and remorseless. He is not above ordering the deaths of colleagues he feels do not toe his party line. Tibbetts and his followers are eventually captured in 1978 and brought to trial in Boston for murder...
Last week set a record. Former Republican Senator Paul Laxalt of Nevada, an active player since spring, abruptly quit. There just was not enough campaign money to go around, he said. Ohio Governor Richard Celeste ended his brief toe dipping in Democratic waters, explaining he could not do his duty to Ohio and a presidential campaign simultaneously; Cuomo made the same argument in February. Others, including two Arkansan favorite sons, Senator Dale Bumpers and Governor Bill Clinton, have pleaded family concerns. Gary Hart, chased out for his lack of such family concerns, last week tentatively decided to end his quirky...
...chunks on boxing in the '50s, as if the fight game had the same historical impact as the Rosenberg trial or the policies of "Engine Charley" Wilson, the Secretary of Defense. You Must Remember This takes lots of wild swings; it is what happens when a fearless slugger goes toe to toe with a big, elusive opponent...