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...script centers on a married couple, James (Ron Schachter) and Eleanor (Kristen Gasser)--a painting preserver undergoing a mid-life crisis and a part-time music teacher approaching menopause. James and Eleanor's children have all left home, creating a void in the couple's life. Bored, James allows the former lover of his dead friend Albert, a chic young woman named Kate (Nan Dunham), to seduce him into his first-ever extra-marital liaison...
...Democrats now have an opportunity to fill a moral void left by President Reagan. Let's hope they don't blow it again...
...indelibly on a mourning nation at the funeral of John Kennedy 22 years ago. Four T-38 jets--the trainers in which all astronauts prepare for their dangerous duties --roared overhead. It would have been a perfect V formation except that a fifth plane was missing, and another symbolic void was created when one of the jets veered sharply away from the others. As the band played God Bless America, the President and the First Lady went down the line of family members, shaking their hands, offering final words of solace, and hugging little Erin and the other children...
...enraged Kline to hear, as he often did, that these works imitated Oriental calligraphy. The calligrapher's white paper is always neutral, a void, whereas Kline wanted his whites to be seen for what they were--blocks and patches of pigment, as painted as the blacks. Moreover, he disliked the word's pseudospiritual aura. Those black strokes were the residue of a tough, specific place, one to which David Smith's sculpture also appealed: a world of trestles and girders, piers and railbeds and X braces, of sooty industrial silhouettes and locomotives highballing through the lonesome American dark...
...constitution. The petitioners hope to delay the vote and thereby win the opposition more campaign time. But the ploy could backfire. If it begins to appear that either opposition candidate might outpoll the President, the Supreme Court, which is dominated by Marcos appointees, might declare the election null and void...