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...DIED. Ya'acov Levinson, 52, former head of Israel's Bank Hapoalim, who was under police investigation for possible financial irregularities; of a self-inflicted gunshot wound; in Ramat Gan, Israel. The bank, Israel's second largest, has been accused of making questionable transfers of assets to its U.S. subsidiary, Ampal-American Israel Corp. Israeli newspapers have suggested that profits from illegal deals may have been diverted into a Labor Party slush fund. Levinson left a note proclaiming his innocence...
...than sex-and-money jokes, and Act I occasionally betrays the strain. Random Star Trek and sportscasting segments come across more like The Groove Tube than pastiche; gags spliced in from other humorists without apparent reason--including Tom Lehrer's "Ave Maria, Gee it's good to see ya" and Monty Python's "No! No singing!"--seem like mere cribs...
SEEKING DIVORCE. From Rod Stewart, 39, mercurial British rocker (Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?) who has shown a penchant for young models: Alana Stewart, 37, actress and model; on the ground of "irreconcilable differences"; after five years of marriage, two children; in Los Angeles...
...music is a different matter. MacDermot's stylistic profligacy is welded by an underlying bluesy harmony. This is established early in Hi Ya Kid, a wistful exchange between young Ulysses Macauley (Josh Blake) and a passing black trainman (David Johnson), and consolidated later in a gentle gospel anthem for the whole town, Beautiful Music. The pop-music style of the '40s is nostalgically evoked in The Birds, a soft-shoe love song for the assistant telegraph operator, Spangler (Rex Smith), and Diana (Leata Galloway). Most effective of all is a bittersweet canonic letter duet for Marcus (Don Kehr...
Much of the criticism Israel now encounters centers on its global role in providing arms and training to repressive regimes as a proxy of the United States. Consider the words of Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Ya'akov Meridor at a speech delivered in August...