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...Comedy Tonight is a serious attempt to explain just how the American musical grew up. The show's host and creator, Sylvia Fine Kaye, is a songwriter (for her husband Danny) and a teacher (at the University of Southern California and Yale). Her TV special is a canny amalgam of entertainment and history. Over 90 minutes the audience watches 14 numbers from typical musicals of different eras: Good News (1927), Anything Goes (1934), Oklahoma! (1943) and Company (1970). In between, Kaye describes the genesis and innovations of each show, augmenting her observations with demonstrations at the piano and interviews...
...magazines were primarily Luce's province, The March of Time belonged to Larsen. In 1928 he produced a series of radio spots distilling news items from the current issue of TIME. The idea developed into The March of Time, an amalgam of journalism and showmanship that lasted until 1951. The program was first broadcast nationwide on CBS radio and then converted to film by Larsen in collaboration with Louis de Rochemont of Fox Movietone News (it won two Oscars in its 16 years...
...support for the Palestine Liberation Organization, the Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker of Harlem's Canaan Baptist Church said the Palestinians "are the niggers of the Mideast." Nathan Perlmutter, director of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, called the black leaders' charges an "amalgam of half-truths, untruths and anti-Semitic nonsense." Howard Squadron, president of the American Jewish Congress, accused black leaders of attacking Jews "for the sake of reviving the sagging institutional fortunes of civil rights organizations that have seen better days...
...Garry Wills, 45, is a writer and columnist who defies tidy labeling. He carefully disengages himself from the right wing in America, which he claims is simply an "amalgam" of individualism in economic affairs. He is skeptical that the political system can produce beneficial change and looks instead to forces "from the principled minority." Wills, who spent six years in a Catholic seminary, says that "the Gospel's concerns are the ones that seem to me to be conservative in the right sense: concern for the poor, concern for peace, concern for social harmony." A humanities professor at Johns Hopkins...
...cultural resurgence. More than $1 billion a year, perhaps the biggest cultural subsidy in the world, is spent by state and federal authorities to finance an aesthetic amalgam of 800 museums, 1,600 art galleries, 60 opera houses, 96 orchestras and 200 legitimate theaters. West Germany has its own new wave of film makers?Rainer Fassbinder, Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders?whose reputations as cinematographic cult figures rival those of the Truffauts and Godards who starred in France's Nouvelle Vague of the '60s. Director Volker Schlondorff won top honors at the Cannes Film Festival last month for his film version...