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...road to the top has been tougher for Hughes, and while Craig was winning the gold medal and the hearts of millions of Americans at Lake Placid, the Somerville native was riding buses in the Central Hockey League...
...Sure, offensive linemen don't have individual statistics. But look at the yards gained rushing, week in and week out. When we were floundering at quarterback, it got tougher and tougher to run. And we just kept zeroing in a picking up more yards," Restic says in praise of his offensive line...
Anne Walsh as Maddie faces a tougher challenge in fleshing out Stoppard's lightly sketched drawing of this bashful yet forthright, dimwitted yet wise "woman of the people." This character is difficult to play because Stoppard uses it as both a center-spring for the plot and as a mouthpiece for his moralizing, and the two are at odds. Walsh succeeds only half-way: her sluttish, gum-chewing, boneheaded secretary is so convincing that when she starts to write the parliamentary committee's draft report, you feel the words are coming from Stoppard--because you know they couldn't come...
...rough on his predecessors at Grove 5: "The articles on Rachmaninoff and Richard Strauss were not worthy of the subjects ... Organist and Composer William Wolstenholme left no impact on the history of music and he shouldn't have been in at all." The new edition is tougher and less sentimental. Sadie's own piece of Mozart, the longest single biography (89 columns) in the dictionary, is a good example. Says Sadie: "Mozart was not just a victim of infirmities and circumstances. He alienated potential patrons and that's partly why he died poor...
...because of the Republicans' vast gains on Capitol Hill in Tuesday's elections, Reagan can expect a warm response to most of his plans. Before long, most Washington observers expect further proposals for increased military spending and tougher U.S. stands abroad...