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Coerced Statement. Armed with a high IQ (154), Smith used his cell time to take college correspondence courses and study law. Over the years he lodged 19 appeals to federal and state courts while delaying execution dates. Public interest in his case mounted, and National Review Editor William Buckley became...
Conductor James Yannatos presented an unusually vigorous selection of works, fortunate in view of the late hour. The program opened with a Bela Bartok suite of Rumanian folk dances orchestrated in 1917 by the composer from the piano solo version. The orchestral playing was excellent; big, clear, and confident. The...
The meanings of the parables themselves are lost as the audience concentrates instead on the imitations--Groucho Marx, Jack Benny, Shirley Temple and Donald Duck are numbered among this lord's disciples--and the song and dance routines. There is a soft-shoe number (Christ and Judas singing "All for...
"Our offense is lacking execution." Harrison said yesterday. "This team. I'm convinced can handle anybody it wants to offensively, but our execution has not given our potential a chance to show itself."
In the past three years, a new kind of journalism review has sprung up in nearly a dozen U.S. cities. Unlike the well-documented, professorial C.J.R., the newcomers are blunt, angry and gossipy in their exposure of faults, real or imagined. Most are financially fragile, physically unprepossessing and dependent on...