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Undeterred by that chilly response, Gibson gave the London Daily Mirror a memo purportedly written by a De Lorean executive. It was silent on the subject of a multimillion-dollar investment shortfall, but described a lesser lapse. The memo said the company had purchased gold faucets and other items worth $19,000 at Harrods, the expensive London department store, for the Ulster home of one of its executives. The firm reportedly "fuzzed" these expenses in bookkeeping records. De Lorean dismissed the latest charges and added: "We plan to file substantial libel actions against all the De Lorean people involved...
TAKING AS HIS SUBJECT this lesser half of a noted pair, this shadow of a shade, Brinnin is unable to sustain the same degree of focus and self-effacement he shows in his other studies. He does not have the same interest in Toklas as in Capote, and he does not pretend to. Rather than follow a character's progress and transformation, because of a simple curiosity and fascination for that character's doings, he ignores the character at hand, striving to reach through and beyond Toklas, to Stein. Brinnin's goal, the biography, undermines his intent to depict Toklas...
Another alternative, tried in California but recently abolished by the legislature, is the doctrine of "diminished capacity." A defendant charged with first-degree murder, for example, could be convicted of a lesser offense like manslaughter, and thus receive a shorter prison term, if he was unable to "maturely and meaningfully reflect upon the gravity of his contemplated...
...lesser celebrity here, thank God," Berger says. "Al Pacino moved into town. So did Ellen Burstyn. An actress came to look at our rented house. I'm so out of it, I didn't know who Jessica Lange...
...This is the dilemma that faces Broadway artists and entrepreneurs. The Shuberts and Nederlanders have demonstrated that show business can make money. The R.S.C., and to a lesser extent artists on Broadway and off, prove that it can make vital theater. The challenge ahead is to reconcile these opposites, and to do it on Broadway. "Broadway at its best gives the best people the resources to do their best," says Prince. The Fabulous Invalid cannot be killed off by an overdose of mediocrity; it can be rehabilitated by frequent injections of imagination and daring. As long as someone...