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...Weill's music is brilliant enough, so that even a mediocre performance like Caravan's is worth seeing, especially if you've never seen the show before. But The Threepenny Opera ought to more than entertain; if the director, actors and musicians conspire aright, it can give you a whiff of death...
...musical version of King of Hearts finally ended, the crowd stood up and cheered. You don't usually see that on opening night for anything. There are two possible explanations. First, and most obvious, is that Boston is a pitifully poor town for professional theater; even the faintest whiff of the real thing overjoyed the patrons. Second, and less plausible, lurks the notion that King of Hearts is a great musical. The answer lies between...
...plopped softly behind her for Evert's point. Navratilova covered her face with her hand, utterly embarrassed by the humiliation of fanning in Centre Court. But rather than crumbling, as she had so often in the past, she roared back. As she put it after the match: "The whiff ball woke...
University of Notre Dame William F. Buckley, LL.D., author, editor. A stowaway foretopman on the ship of state; a franc-tireur for the West and Christendom; a Burke, a Roland, a Quixote, with a whiff of Falstaff and a swing of the snickersnee...
Last week the whiff of shaky bank dealings-an uncomfortable reminder of the Bert Lanceaffair-caused dismay at the White House. Said Press Secretary Jody Powell: "What contacts Gregory had with the President have been in the relationship of a financial contributor." An aide to the First Lady made clear that she "does not consider Gregory a close friend." John White, Jimmy Carter's nominee as the Democratic National Committee chairman, declared that he "never heard of Gregory until TIME started asking about him." Immediately after, White phoned Gregory and took back an invitation to a D.N.C. finance council...