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...presumably including the detention without trial of hundreds of pro-democracy activists and the execution on trumped-up charges of opposition leaders like Ken Saro-Wiwa. Farrakhan also praised the government of Sudan, which has slaughtered hundreds of thousands of people in a long-running civil war, for its "wise Islamic leadership." In Tehran he pledged to help the mullahs overthrow the "Great Satan," as the U.S. is known locally. Then he moved on to Iraq to denounce U.N. economic sanctions--not mentioning that they are intended to ensure that Saddam Hussein's chemical and biological weapons are actually destroyed...
...culture. Gleason as bus driver Ralph Kramden was huge, bombastic, extravagant with feeling. Meadows as his wife was slight, cool, drolly down-to-earth. She imbued Alice with a prefeminist feistiness that rendered Ralph's threats of domestic violence ridiculous. Yet she was also tender in a worldly wise way, always ready to forgive Ralph his latest scheme to escape hardscrabble Brooklyn...
With past student operas, it has been easy to be impressed without being really interested, but in this "Figaro", opera was what it should be: entertaining. This is due in part to the choice of opera, one of the funniest in the literature, and the wise decision to perform it in English; but it is also a testament to the enthusiasm and comic skill of the cast, which knew just how much...
...Steve Forbes, blanketing the airwaves in Arizona, beguiling crowds in Iowa three times the size of Dole's, leading by nine points in a poll of New Hampshire voters. The survey had its flaws: it was conducted well before Bob Dole had uncaged his more ferocious ads. Some wise elders insisted that Dole would rebound and Forbes would slide; but others said no, the whole race is up for grabs now, Dole may lose New Hampshire and drop out, Phil Gramm may surge, the campaign may crack wide open and go all the way to California (only seven weeks away...
...series is filled with intriguing secondary characters, especially Reese's domineering father, who is played with creepy panache by Ray Wise. Savannah is such deliciously bad Southern gothic that it may even help you forget the simply awful Northern Gotham that was Central Park West...