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ROMANCE IN HARD TIMES. The libretto of this off-Broadway musical about the Depression is odd, but the score is one of the most memorable in years...
...Jerry Simon's going to have to do a lot ofthings for us to be an effective team," Coach FranDunphy said. "He's going to have to rebound well,he's going to have to score, he's going to have toplay real good defense. He many find himself inany one of three positions...
...Miserables (1987). Victor Hugo's tale of the downtrodden and a doomed revolution electrified 19th century Europe. Set to an emotion-drenched score and given a nonpareil staging, it has stirred audiences all over the late 20th century world...
Poets in Their Youth by Eileen Simpson (1982). This would be a rarity in any era, a literary memoir free of rancor and score settling. The author recalls her first husband, John Berryman, and his friends, among them Robert Lowell, Randall Jarrell and Delmore Schwartz, men who left behind some splendid poems and some sad histories of alcoholism, despair and suicide. But here they are young and joyful amid the possibilities of words, ignorant of the sadnesses that await them...
None of which fazed George Bush in the slightest. At a news conference Thursday the usually reserved President seemed almost cocky. American casualties in the Panama operation -- more than a score dead and 200 wounded at week's end -- were heartbreaking but nevertheless "worth it," said Bush. He closed with a note of defiant self-confidence: "I have an obligation as President to conduct the foreign policy of this country the way I see fit . . . if the American people don't like it, I expect they'll get somebody else to take my job, but I'm going to keep...