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...drudge, just when it came clearest I was the muddy flower-peddler, not her aftermath-princess, just when I felt that Immortality would only know me as a helpmeet, just when I'd gained six pounds, Farce, as it will when your happy-quota shades off into urban gray, intervened: all pinks, oranges, reds." Thus comedy begets tragedy: just as Art Spiegelman could best explain his family's Holocaust tragedy in comic book form, Gurganus makes the ultimate tragedy of Plays Well With Others farcical...
...California. After that, according to media buyers, Checchi will have to drop $1 million a week on TV ads to reach the state's 5 million primary voters. That could total $40 million, which would make the state's 1998 gubernatorial race the most expensive ever. Lieutenant Governor Gray Davis challenged Checchi this month to agree to the $6 million spending limit imposed by California's Proposition 208 on primary candidates who must seek donations. But Checchi, who plans to reach only into his own pockets, has rejected the idea. "I don't see anything dishonorable in putting yourself before...
Eastern Carolina had one more export: conservative Democrats. It had been sending them to Washington since the Blue defeated the Gray, and Lancaster was no different. He backed the death penalty; he supported Star Wars; he voted to ban federal money for obscene art. But Lancaster also supported Clinton's tax increase in 1993 and his crime bill the year after, and in 1994 an upstart Republican bombarded the Carolina coast with pictures of Lancaster jogging with a President everyone despised. Lancaster and dozens of moderate Democrats like him went down to defeat. It was death by Clinton...
...couple of the songs stretch all possible limits on credibility, such as the opening "There's a Rumor in St. Petersburg." Here, the peasants belt into a song that carries the dubious refrain "Since the revolution, our lives have been so gray." The staging itself doesn't have any delusions about its purpose: hundreds of Russian peasants drop their work, disperse from their bread line and take up synchronized folk dancing in one of the more laughable spectacles of the film. Yet Anastasia--unlike Pocahontas, for example--makes no pretense about adhering to history, and we accept...
...Allston resident reported that at 7:10 p.m., while in his motor vehicle at 33 JFK St., he was approached by three people, one of whom punched him in the face and fled in a gray Toyota...