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...airports, just like the Detroit executive he used to be. De Lorean dabbled in a slew of other businesses, from snowmobiles to buses, and left a trail of corporations registered in Nevada and Michigan. In time, he seemed to lose interest in running the automobile business, and was seldom seen in Belfast. One Wall Streeter who observed the goings-on at De Lorean's company summed things up: "I don't think the company ever got managed at all. Everything happened so fast...
During last season's final push for the Ivy League hockey title, senior Scott McCabe and sophomore Liz Gill saw an unusual display from the Harvard fans. The crowds cheered, sang, threw chickens and generally exhibited organized enthusiasm seldom seen in recent memory...
...Seldom has a tyrant been so absolute or cruel that he could not find some major artist, a Rubens or a Titian, a Velasquez or a Bernini, to fawn on him for a suitable fee. It is the nature of carnivores to get power, at which point, having disposed of their enemies, they deploy the emollient powers of Great Art to make them look like herbivores. Stalinist socialist realism was merely the end of this process, carried out by hacks. After it, the more intelligent of the Beloved Leaders would want radio and TV, not painting, to be their cosmeticians...
Alton's Peron is a Machiavellian, if occasionally befuddled, politician. And R. Michael Baker's Che stands as a deserving counter-Force to Alstay's Evita. He's on stage almost throughout the show, jumping, running, kneeling--seldom content to stand silently as Evita becomes increasingly popular and disingenuous...
...Seldom is there a quiet moment in the clan of Windsor, whose comings and goings never cease to delight the subjects of their tiny sceptered isle. But last week's escapade was a doozy by any royal standard. Within days after Prince Andrew's celebrated return from his tour of duty in the Falklands aboard the carrier Invincible, he plans a well-deserved rest. Ah, but not alone. Andrew, 22, and a winsome lass named Koo Stark, 25, head off for the Caribbean island of Mustique and the house once used as a trysting hideaway by Princess Margaret...