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There are plenty of dissident Teamsters, along with some ambitious Hoffa underlings, who are eager to take over Jimmy's job if he goes to jail. They will, of course, have to wait a while; Hoffa almost certainly can drag out his appeals for a long time. Meanwhile, he has another appointment in federal court-this one in Chicago, where he and seven other men will go on trial April 27 on charges of using the mails and wires fraudulently to make more than $20 million in loans from a Teamsters pension fund, and diverting...
Blow for La Dolce Vita. Many marital cases drag on for ten years or more, but the lawyer who argued Lee's case before the Rota denies that she got any special favor. "I deliberately asked that this case be handled with severity," insists Dr. Fernando Delia Rocca. Since Lee was not saying, and the Rota does not publish its decisions until ten years after the ruling, Vatican insiders could only guess that her grounds were that Canfield refused to have any children...
...simply the effect of Monkish humor. He has a great reputation in the jazz world as a master of the "put-on," a mildly cruel art invented by hipsters as a means of toying with squares. Monk is proud of his skill. "When anybody says something that's a drag," he says, "I just say something that's a bigger drag. Ain't nobody can beat me at it either. I've had plenty of practice." Lately, though, Monk has been more mannerly and conventional...
...Nobody messed with Thelonious," he recalls, "but they used to call me 'Monkey,' and you know what a drag that was." His father returned to the South alone to recover from a long illness, leaving Monk's mother, a sternly correct civil servant, to work hard to give her three children a genteel polish. At eleven, Thelonious began weekly piano lessons at 75¢ an hour...
...production's strengths, however, cannot offset the play's weakness. Despite the prodigious cuts, a number of almost-identical scenes in which assorted rival kings condemn Tamburlaine to assorted dooms make the reading drag horribly...