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...derricks weathered under the south western sun; tramp steamers rusted in their harbor slips. But the visitor from New York heeded neither the heat nor the scenery. Samuel I. Newhouse, 67, had come to the Texas Gulf Coast port of Beaumont for only one reason ? to run down a rumor that the city's two news papers were for sale. Beyond that possibility, Beaumont held no charms for the little man from the big city. And when the rumor proved false, the visitor could not get out of town fast enough...
...minor complaints should be made. For some reason, "The Lady is a Tramp" is interpolated into the score. It is a fine song, but it has nothing to do with Pal Joey. Second, on opening night, two entire scenes and part of another were omitted in order for the production to finish early. Such significant moments as the morning--after scene in Joey's apartment, with its song, "In Our Little Den of Iniquity," were left entirely out. This offense was compounded by having Mr. Lawrence entertain the patrons afterwards with songs. If the patrons were willing to stay, they...
...history. With rare exception, its lavishly illustrated contents take the long view. An article on Red China, for example, traces the Communist conquest all the way back to Sun Yat-sen - a non-Communist revolutionary who toppled the 268-year Manchu dynasty in 1911. Caesar's Roman legions tramp through a lengthy examination of the U.S. Air Force's Strategic Air Command. The antecedents of Samos. the U.S.'s TV spy satellite, are tracked back across 100 years, when a balloon-borne camera produced an aerial view of Boston...
...film draws one onto the boneheap: you recognize immediately the rules that everybody in Vienna understands. You know, for example, that there are three sorts of people: The authorities--the police and the military--who tramp about in heavy boots to make sudden arrests; the racketeers, who murder each other and keep the populace content with illicit tires and cigarettes; the mass of inhabitants, who prefer not to meddle with the dangerous affairs of bureaucracy or black markets. All of them, of course, are very well accustomed to evil...
...Caretaker, by Harold Pinter. In a junk-filled London room, two odd brothers and a tramp illuminate the perennial questions of man's isolation from, his need for, and his quirky rejection of, his fellow...