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There you have a capsule description of Becker, the tangle-footed teenager whose room is often a mess, who forgets to carry money in his pocket and who boogies through life to rock tunes pumped directly brain ward by his stereo headset. His was a Wimbledon of tie breakers, comebacks and an injured ankle, all blithely handled. In the finals, it was Kevin Curren, a decade Becker's senior, who was a bundle of nerves as his percentage of successful first serves (47%) proved. He also seemed befuddled by an opponent who could go all out for everything because...
...Geoffrey Ward, former editor of American Heritage, is the latest of many to explore those thickets. He does so by returning to F.D.R.'s origins. The Roosevelts, it turns out, were a strange and sometimes bizarre family, and their history illuminates many of F.D.R.'s foibles. The future President's father James was widower of 52 when he suddenly proposed marriage to the equally lofty Sara Delano, age 26. The reason the Delanos were so privileged was that Sara's father was one of those 19th century entrepreneurs who had made a fortune smuggling Turkish opium into China...
Mayhem ensues when one perverted English psychiatrist, the secretary he tries to seduce, his nymphomaniac wife, a hotel page, a self-assured government official, and a police sergeant find themselves together at a psychiatric ward, caught in a web of hidden agendas, lies, and gender disguises. As if the plot contrivances weren’t confounding enough, many of the plays’ absurd lines seem to make no sense at all, only becoming relevant at the show’s revelatory (and morally disquieting...
...There is a recognition that the museum needs to reach out to the broader population,” says Hirsch, “but a lot of the concerts hadn’t been reaching out age-wise.” Now they are. The M. Ward show in March was sold out much earlier than expected, which can only lead to even higher expectations for more well-known farm-tool favorites like Magnolia Electric Co., Bonnie “Prince” Billy, and the Books coming up in April...
...Crimson has been plagued by enough breaks, sprains, tears, and pulls to fill an entire medical ward...