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...first death occurred on May 1, when Jaime Vaquero Garcia, 8, died in Torrejon de Ardoz, near Madrid. His five brothers and sisters also suffered from signs and symptoms that were soon to become all too familiar-severe muscular pain, fever, skin rashes and impaired nerve function-but all of them survived...
Television, whose commercials have lured many young people to Broadway, has also shaped (or dulled) their tastes; anything alive and kicking may look like a masterpiece. There is no question that, as a museum of musical art, Broadway delivers. But the function of any popular art is to serve the intelligent heart as well as the expense account. The commercial theater should be able to do better. Many sympathetic observers believe it will. Surely, in the past...
...watch, to help, to cheer--and to miss football badly. "It's weird," he said yesterday at practice, his grey warm-up suit setting him apart from the white-shirted defense and the red-shirted of-fense. "When I come down here now, I don't have a function and I'm an out-sider. After I knew I'd be out for the season, I didn't know whether I'd want to keep coming to practice. But when I came down on Tuesday, I knew how much I would miss the camaraderie and just being here...
...sits in the U.S. Senate, is no exception. He has, with all sincerity, traded in his liberal baggage, handsome though it was, for it simply wasn't strong enough. Now he's got an ideological American Tourister ensemble; it may not hold too much, and its aesthetic is function, not beauty, but the damn stuff almost never breaks. "The message of this book," he writes on the second page of The Road From Here, "is the blending of realism and compassion in a manner that does not disrupt society...
...TROUBLE IS, though, that when you mix black with most anything you still get black. In his sorriest chapter, Tsongas tries to defend the notion that free enterprise in most cases will function humanely, and that tapping its power is the key to recovery from malaise. His example is Lowell, which has been revitalized by the influx of electronic firms. The "public and private sectors of Lowell are now engaged in ardent embrace," he says. And so it may be, but the tax breaks that encouraged investment in Lowell meant the plant didn't go up in some other town...