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...Ticket. The old days meant a great barn of a place called the Syria Mosque, where the only thing murkier than the sound was the drab walls. By contrast, Heinz Hall is a gay neo-Baroque extravaganza of red, white and gold. Its roomy halls and stairways exude an old-world charm seldom equaled by more up-to-date structures of glass and steel. As is typical of old movie theaters, there is not a single seat with a bad sight line-more than can be said for the Concert Hall in Washington's new Kennedy Center...
When last seen through the mist of such depressing lyrics. Harry ("Rabbit") Angstrom was hustling his 6 feet 3 inches over the drab surface of Mount Judge, Pa., and away from his responsibilities. That was in 1960 at the conclusion of John Updike's Rabbit, Run. Unlike Huckleberry Finn, Rabbit had no expansive territory ahead. Tethered by circumstances, he could only enjoy what Updike calls "a little ecstasy of motion...
...thus becoming the first top-ranking Western leader to set foot in Greece since the 1967 coup. Officially, there was to be no endorsement of the junta, just a discussion of "NATO matters." Unofficially, Agnew would visit his ancestral home as a private citizen. But when his olive-drab helicopter settled down at Gargalianoi (pop. 6,200), one day last week, Agnew saw the streets lined with some 60,000 cheering peasants who had come on foot and by donkey and chartered bus from miles around. At Agnew's side, his head reaching only to Agnew's shoulder...
...errands for other Russian spies; in fact, arrests were expected momentarily. By leaking his name and depicting him as an alcoholic and a ladies' man, the Soviets hoped to cast doubt on his importance and his character; in the process, they also betrayed the fact that, even in this drab age, the life of a spy can have its high points. A natty dresser who bought his clothes in Regent Street, Oleg was known as a big spender who, according to one restaurateur, "thought nothing of picking up an £80 [$192] tab." He had a wife and seven-year...
...With Books Do Furnish a Room. Powell's rornan fleuve moves on from its wartime trilogy to chronicle the fitful resurgence of normal life in drab postwar England. Old members will know what to expect and will not be disappointed. Once again the narrator is Nick Jenkins, out of the army and back in London as literary editor of a new little magazine. Once again the plot proceeds not so much by incidents as coincidence. In a series of set pieces -a funeral, a literary cocktail party -characters bob up from the past, intermingle, realign themselves and caper...