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...arms. Coretta Scott King and other leaders of the civil rights movement still resent Jackson's actions during the days after King's death, especially his claim that the turtleneck he was wearing had the slain leader's blood on it. Does this show Jackson is an opportunistic showboat...
Brokaw was neither stooge nor combatant. His tactic was to ask sharp, tight questions but rarely argue back. His concern, he says, was not to "showboat" himself and not to let Gorbachev filibuster with windy answers, though there was no way to stop him, says Brokaw, "short of reaching over and grabbing him by the tie, which I almost did." Gorbachev is unabashable, as seasoned politicians come to be, but as a salesman and defender of Communism, he was nowhere. He was more convincing on the question of how much he wants, and perhaps needs, to reduce the arms race...
...Singin' in the Rain, plus many others, during an eight-month tour of the U.S., Britain and Australia beginning next winter. Reynolds, who has been touring with her own show on the variety circuit, phoned O'Connor, who had been appearing in a nostalgia-trip revival of Showboat, and the two tried out their act in a smash stint three months ago in Atlantic City. Their 1 1/2-hour show will cover four decades of music, from Singin' through today's hits, but, says O'Connor, 60, "we don't try to be young. We just think young. I wouldn...
Words and Music--Friday at 5:30 p.m.; with Showboat at 8 p.m.; Museum of Fine Arts...
...shirts, lounged in deck chairs and smiled amiably at the few nervous passengers who strolled hesitantly past the President's rear cabin. Carter roamed on board freely, but generally alone, though he and Rosalynn viewed the vessel's mild entertainments-a card-sharping exhibition and the movie Showboat-and shared drinks in the lounge one night with a group of Catholic retirees. Lois Paskett, a widow from St. Paul, bubbled, "I have a hard time getting to sleep just thinking I am on the same boat with the President." Nonetheless, by journey's end many passengers were...