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...little detail of masts and sails in Manet's Moonlight over Boulogne Harbor, 1869, is blown up to an 8-ft. square in Sultan's Harbor July 6, 1984. But there is, to put it mildly, a wee gap on the scale of talent between Sultan and his lucky predecessor...
Before he took office in February, South Korean President Roh Tae Woo pledged to leave no "sanctuary" for wrongdoers in the government of his predecessor and mentor, Chun Doo Hwan. Roh is proving true to his word. Last week Chun's younger brother, Chun Kyung Hwan, 45, was arrested for tax evasion, influence peddling, and embezzling at least $8.7 million from the semiofficial Saemaul Undong movement, a national development organization he headed for seven years...
Sarah's real rebellion is her rejection of two centuries of American, and specifically of WASP, tradition, heritage and religion. Her predecessor, Hester Prynne, violates propriety by having a child out of wedlock with a priest. But sex out of marriage is not a taboo in Sarah's world. Her betrayal of society comes from aligning herself with the Other, defecting to Eastern thought and to the Occidental religions that a xenophobic society is apt to consider loony and dangerous...
...Lovely Bunch of Cocoanuts. Once a boy blimp who weighed 240 lbs., Griffin shed a third of that bulk so he could sing on stage. He later had a brief movie career, which included one line in a Doris Day film. Guest appearances for Jack Paar, Johnny Carson's predecessor in NBC-TV's late-night spot, won Griffin his own daytime talk show in 1960, which he syndicated. It was so successful that in 1969 CBS offered him $80,000 a week for a show opposite Carson...
Harvard's sixth year coach has a career lifetime record of 72-81. She has now won more games than any other Harvard women's basketball coach, passing her predecessor, Carole Kleinfelder, with Saturday night's win over Brown. Thirty six of her wins have come in the Ivy League--29 over the last three years...