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While they wait, three-year-old Galo plays with his wooden top. Most young peruanos have tops; resembling a large radish in shape and size, the top is thrown like a yo-yo with a flick of the wrist and spins upright even in an unpaved road...
...soap, mouthwash and men's underwear. That was before Actress Andrea Marcovicci went legit, of course, first with a 2%-year run as lovable Dr. Betsy Chernak in the TV soap opera Love Is a Many Splendored Thing, and most recently as Woody Allen's morally upright friend in The Front. For all that, Marcovicci has been singing the blues lately-as a chanteuse at Reno Sweeney in Manhattan. "If I stick to singing, I won't go stir crazy waiting for another movie part," she says. Are her days as a TV hucksteress long gone then...
What makes better sense, she says, than an upright and moral Baptist to appeal to the Republicans who can't respond to the Republican Party because of the institutional sin that Ford just swept under...
...events of world or national importance. The U.S. Bicentennial was no exception. On its main floor not long ago, Mitsukoshi displayed one of Martha Washington's evening dresses and a gown worn by Mary Lincoln-both borrowed from a private American collection. Another bit of Americana: the upright piano that Teddy Roosevelt played while he was President. Mitsukoshi's shelves were stocked with $3.3 million in U.S.-made goods. Among the scores of items: McDonald's hamburgers, Ben Hogan golf clubs, a $566,000 emerald ring from Tiffany...
...restoring a good deal of rarely heard music. Gershwin's recitatives have traditionally been replaced by spoken dialogue. Most productions have entirely eliminated a brief, sensual scene showing the night life of Charleston, with the character Jasbo Brown playing some lowdown blues on a splendidly out-of-tune upright piano. They also usually omit Porgy's superstitious "Buzzard Song" ("Once de buzzard fold his wing an' light over yo' house/ All yo' happiness done dead") as well as several chunks of the last scene. All that restored material does make for a three-hour-long...