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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That plan seems to pave the way for opposition leader Vaclav Havel, a jailed playwright and symbol of Czechoslovakia's peaceful revolution, and dash the hopes of Alexander Dubcek, the 68-year-old Slovak who led the "Prague Spring" reforms...
When the piece ran, the intifada was two months old and the death toll was 54. Dershowitz argued that--shootings and tear-gassings aside--the Israeli judiciary had "reacted magnificently." That's nice. If you're shot and killed, you can always...
...Sunday, the 53-year-old playwright told a cheering crowd of 100,000 in Prague that the new government was "a great success...
...show: recycled mugger-repellent. What kind of new show? Some comedy, centered more in the present than the nostalgic P.H.C. was, he said a few days before the first broadcast. But mostly "fine, classic American music; music to make people throw babies in the air." Tunes for the old show, which he closed with a teary farewell broadcast in June 1987 (tearier second and third farewells followed, and a fourth is plotted for next June), tended to be guitar-based bluegrass and country, not counting the occasional trombone choir playing Lapland milking songs...
...classy 16-piece orchestra, no less, anchors the A.R.C. series, most of whose broadcasts will come from the Majestic Theater in Brooklyn, a spectacularly decayed old burlesque house belonging to the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The first broadcast detonated with a finger-snapping zum-bum-ooo-ooo singing group called True Image, headed uptown with show tunes swung elegantly by soprano Eileen Farrell, the diva who stops being 70 when she opens her mouth, then went gloriously low-down with Jelly Roll Morton tunes by pianist Butch Thompson, the fine St. Paul barrelhouser from the P.H.C. days. Flying babies filled...