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...play it again? When Barry Manilow helped open the new Paramount theater -- a symbolic act in itself -- back in September with a volley of his favorite Broadway standards, he was the latest of several Pop stars to declare for the old-time religion: Maureen McGovern, Linda Ronstadt and Carly Simon have all issued neoconservative albums, to blend right in with your Bennetts and Clooneys and Sinatras, while several talented young singers, such as Andrea Marcovicci, Mary Cleere Haran and Harry Connick Jr., actually seem to have been born that...
...Simon & Schuster; 322 pages...
...apparently believed that popular discontent was sufficient to swing the citizenry to their side. Over the years, the officers had made little secret of their intentions or their motives, though no one paid much attention. Calling themselves the Bolivarian Military Movement, they pledged allegiance to the country's liberator, Simon Bolivar, and accused the government of being a corrupt "oligarchy" out of touch with the people...
...Paul Simon, the Democratic Senator from Illinois, lost a bet and, as payment, replaced his standard bow tie with a neck...
...black. Self-esteem comes from doing things well, from discovering how to tell a truth from a lie and from finding out what unites us as well as what separates us. The posturing of the politically correct is no more a guide to such matters than the opinions of Simon Legree...