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...appraisal of the voters is that he is not ready. There is no reason to believe this race will turn yet again." Declares veteran Democratic Strategist Ted Van Dyk, head of a Washington-based think tank: "Hart shattered his image. Suddenly, he was trying to out-promise Mondale. He tore up the snapshot that forms in voters' minds of every candidate. He can paste it back together, but it will never be the same...
...dropped his pants, so to speak. Last week at a casino in Atlantic City, N.J., he opened in Sugar, a musical stage adaptation of the 1959 movie Some Like It Hot. Despite his previous experience with nylons, however, Broadway Joe found dressing like a broad a definite drag. "I tore the first three pair of fishnet stockings I put on," said Namath. He plays Josephine, the saxophone player who poses as a woman in an all-girl band to avoid the Mob and falls in love with Sugar Kane, an all-woman girl played on film by Marilyn Monroe...
...edition of Ibsen, the play's diction betrays all the self-conscious "translationese" of the turn of the century--even to the using the word "poesy" for "poetry" here and there. Faced with the need to make lines like "Can you not re-weld the link you tore asunder?" and "Am I to hallmark your complacency?" sound natural, director Holly Swartz takes the logical strategy of stylizing the actors' motion and delivery to match the tone. This works in spots, but it cannot keep things moving for two and a half hours. The weight of verbiage is simply too great...
Hazel Taylor and his wife Yvonne joined hands in terror as the tornado funnel raced toward their mobile home in Abney, S.C. The winds tore the trailer apart, lifted up the Taylors and whirled them 100 ft. through the air like two figures from the second circle of Dante's Inferno. Rescue workers found them lying in a field, dazed but alive-and still holding hands...
...Jernigan tore through the field, besting Williams' Greg Zaff in the final, 3-2. It was Jernigan's second national singles title this season: he won the USSRA championship last month. The sophomore has now won both amateur titles two years in a row, and has firmly established his grip as the top collegiate player in the country...