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...second life to black-and-white cliches -- what better than a heated format for rewarming old chestnuts? But color also has special advantages for dealing in deadpan ironies. Even before the eye takes in the subjects of Mary Ellen Mark's photo essay on Miami, the sheer chromatic punch says that Florida is a great setting for the human comedy. The lemony sunlight, the all too scrumptious blue of the sky: even the elements are in on the joke. And surprise, they make a perfect foil for the elderly locals, who strut with a vehemence that she finds both funny...
From the moment I punch in or step into a warehouse, I feel as if I have entered the Tower of Babel: nothing makes sense. For instance, when my foreman tells me to "cut the grass down thar between that patch of goober weeds and them stink weeds," I am at a complete loss...
...costumes, lighting, direction and dialogue by the author. No epitaph by friend or critic could equal the one he ad-libbed for himself when a journalist reminded him that he had not been born with a silver spoon in his mouth. True, Beaton acknowledged. Then he added the irrefutable punch line that summed up a life: "But I managed to put it there...
...been flirting with .400 all year. Boston's pitching staff has the best earned-run average in the league. Rich Gedman has turned out to be a catcher. Jim Rice is having one of his best years, and the arrival of Don Baylor from the Yankees has added punch and the first sign of clubhouse leadership in anyone's memory. To the amazement of all, the Sox in a mid-June visit to Yankee Stadium, usually a favored site for the yearly crack-up, swept three games and in Baltimore mugged the surging Orioles three in a row. Said Oriole...
John Sununu, 46, is not just another well-heeled computer buff. He is the Governor of New Hampshire, and the data he pores over so diligently represent the state's $1 billion in annual expenditures. Using the computer and modem in his office in Concord, he can punch in his name and secret password, log on to the state's IBM 4361 mainframe computer, and get a quick reading, in glowing green digits, of the state's financial health: room-and-meal tax returns ($30.3 million as of last November); business profits taxes ($28.4 million); out-of-town travel expenses...