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...Revolutionary War ancestor.) At that, even his wife began calling him John. Finally, it took the Johnson landslide of 1964, and Tunney was in Congress. From that day to this, a lot of hard work in his district, a friendly gerrymandering to add Democratic votes, and vigorous campaigning have kept him there...
...company is kept alive and kicking largely because of the talent-spotting skills of its founding artistic director, Seattle-born Robert Joffrey, 39. Widely regarded as one of the best teachers and coaches in the U.S., Joffrey has a knack for signing up promising unknowns and guiding them to maturity. This season a whole platoon of new young dancers has been turning in pleasurably kinetic and graceful performances. Erika Goodman and Chartel Arthur, both 22, have developed into perky, quicksilver ballerinas with a feathery, light-operatic flair. Alone or with partners, Edward Verso, 28, is a willowy athlete who displays...
...Moratorium was a good thing. Besides its more obvious accomplishments, it kept us away from Providence November 15, the day of the Brown game. Some of us have come to know what the Brown game means-and doesn't mean-by watching some of these contests in the two-thirds empty Stadium. Others have not. But had it not been for the trip to Washington, even some of us who were aware of the game's tradition might have gone to that contest just for the sake of making a trip to Providence. There you can see the Peter...
...most famous Brooks characterization, the 2000 Year Old Man, works over the largest territory, smashing the idols of all time. At one point he credits the Robin Hood legend to a press agent and explains that the altruistic robber actually "stole from everybody and kept everything." He reminds us of Shakespeare's flop play, "Queen Alexandra and Murray," which "closed in Egypt...
...wonder that Brooks praised his old partner this week because Reiner always kept him "in a state of panic." Panic is the durable essence of Brooks' humor: the panic of being born into a world that demands us to "partake in social activities" rather than be privately ourselves...