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...nights it shows in New York before its close on Saturday, A Chorus Line will remain the longest running musical on Broadway. Its longevity is not without good reason--this intimate look at life in the performing arts has a brilliant text and score. A brilliant and exacting text and score...
Michael, who was born in Los Angeles, believes his birthday, Dec. 21, has an almost mystical significance. "It's the longest night of the year and the shortest day," he explains. "So this is a very important balancing point for me -- it's where I feel my maximum strength. As the days grow shorter, I get stronger and stronger. Somehow, maybe the moment in which the clock has first started ticking and the moment when you first make your entrance into this world are important in some...
Blacks, who feel they waited longest and endured most in the fight for equal opportunity, are uneasy about being supplanted by Hispanics or, in some areas, by Asians as the numerically largest and most influential minority -- and even more, about being outstripped in wealth and status by these newer groups. Because Hispanics are so numerous and Asians such a fast-growing group, they have become the "hot" minorities, and blacks feel their needs are getting lower priority. As affirmative action has broadened to include other groups -- and to benefit white women perhaps most of all -- blacks perceive it as having...
...Senators said was either hit Keating or finish the investigation, this had to be the longest examination in the history of the S&L business. If you can't go to the Congress to get relief from an agency that's gone haywire, what do you do? You live in a different country than I think we live...
...Baines Johnson, for example, became the 36th President will surprise no one now. But readers of Robert Caro's Means of Ascent are in for a white-knuckle, hair-raising tale that could have ended in any of a dozen different ways, with L.B.J. in the White House the longest shot of all. This is good history, and with a vengeance...