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Although it was past midnight Monday when Brandt's resignation was announced, more than 150 torch-bearing Social Democratic Party members marched up to Brandt's house on the Venusberg overlooking Bonn. Placing candles before its heavy iron gate, they took up a silent vigil, broken only by occasional shouts of "Willy! Stay in office!" The following day, tens of thousands of Brandt supporters marched through cities across Germany-Hamburg, Frankfurt, Hannover, West Berlin, Bonn. Telegrams urging the Chancellor to reconsider flooded S.P.D. headquarters...
...emerald peau de soie and a rhinestone choker, Mrs. Norman Mailer No. 5 was singing the blues. In a Stockbridge, Mass., boite not far from the Mailer homestead, former Nightclub Singer Carol Stevens, 41, ran through a dozen old standards drawn mainly from Helen Morgan's repertory. Torch style, Carol aimed a few of the numbers directly at an impassive Norman in a stageside seat: The Man I Love and My Heart Belongs to Daddy. She also sang Gee Baby, Ain 't I Good to You after acknowledging to Male Chauvinist Mailer that it was really...
Military goods are a completely different matter. At one point along the road, smoke rolled up from an abandoned barracks that had been put to the torch by the Israelis. "This is nothing," said an officer, "come back next week and then you won't be able to see the sky for all the smoke...
...show seems set up as a parody of the musical comedy medium, the child of all of the "serious" musicals that we have. LaZebnik inflates the institutions of musicals--torch songs, soft-shoe, romantic ballads--and then colors them with subtle witty lyrics and musical jokes: the entr'acte is a fourfold repeat of one song, and typically Show-type" harmonies are colored with dissonance or humorous rhythms. One of the greatest problems in most musicals is the transition from dramatic scenes to musical numbers. The history of shows displays a constant struggle to find new, unexpected ways to introduce...
...Vehicles and government buildings were burned, including the offices of Thanom's son, Colonel Narong Kittikachorn, who was suspected by many students of maneuvering to be Thailand's next Prime Minister. I watched the modern office building that houses the national lottery being put to the torch. Explained one student: "It's good that we burn the lottery, because it only robs the poor people and makes the generals more rich...