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...Eliot House resident says he believes an anti-American bias among the judicial panel, of which the majority hails from the Eastern bloc, and his relative youth cost him a higher finish...
...annual autumn trip to Venice: "Without meaning to, Verity had taken her mother's place." People in Trevor's stories do not awaken from dreams so much as they fall into the deep sleep of illusion. Nancy Simpson, the ex-chorus girl in Lunch in Winter, muses about her youth while she sits in a hotel bar waiting for the right man to come along: "She could see the stairs, where sooner or later the chap would appear. He'd buy a drink and then he'd look around and there she'd be." In Music, Justin Condon, a traveling...
Critics have often labeled Sondheim's work special or even avant-garde. In fact, Sondheim is simply carrying forward an innovative tradition in which he was steeped from youth. Born into a prosperous New York City dress- manufacturing family, Sondheim had as friend and mentor Oscar Hammerstein II. Although Hammerstein became a pillar of the mainstream musical, some of his revered standards, notably Oklahoma! and South Pacific, were seen the way Sondheim's work often is now, as daringly unromantic and political. Where Sondheim genuinely differs from the past is in his effort to avoid writing pop ditties so catchy...
...more than four are considered vulnerable. Cranston's is one of them. For the first time, the 71-year-old Senator will not be facing a far-right opponent; Zschau, 46, portrays himself as a fiscal conservative but social moderate. The Congressman's political polish, his relative youth and particularly his powerful fund-raising abilities (he expects to spend another $10 million) will be vital assets against a still popular incumbent who hopes to raise more than $8 million for the November contest...
...inherently democratizing devices. "The new communications technology has changed things completely," says one Moscow father of teenagers. "Tapes can be played over and over, exchanged, copied." In the '50s American moral vigilantes sometimes claimed that rock 'n' roll was the creation of Communist subversives out to undermine U.S. youth; today Pravda could make the counterclaim a lot more persuasively. Says U.S. Information Agency Director Charles Z. Wick, a former talent agent: "I would hope that American pop culture would penetrate into other societies, acting as a pilot parachute for the rest of American values...