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...MOST PAINFUL SCREECH The inharmonious notes emitted by such flops as Rags, Raggedy Ann, Into the Light and Honky Tonk Nights, which indicated that the once robust Broadway musical is very sick indeed...
...year: "There's so much pressure on people today. They need to add a sense of humor to their wardrobes." But imitation-jewelry fans also have practical reasons for their newfound passion. "If you travel with your good jewelry, you're going to get knocked over the head," observes Ann Mahony, a West Coast businesswoman, who recalls that she used to pin gems inside her lingerie before becoming a faux devotee. "Even now that I can afford the real thing, I still buy costume jewelry...
...failure for what used to be Broadway's mainstay. Staged with varying degrees of artistry, the ill-fated shows shared one disabling presumption: musicals must be "about" something beyond melody and romance. Rags tried to survey the immigrant experience, Honky Tonk Nights blended music hall with racial conflict, Raggedy Ann was a dying girl's Freudian nightmare, and Into the Light asked whether the Shroud of Turin is Jesus Christ's burial cloth. All suffocated under the weight of their ambition...
...Analysts thought the talks might have been related to GM's mammoth cost- cutting effort. In recent weeks, GM has announced plans to close ten factories, terminate 29,000 workers and reduce by half the planned output at its proposed ultra-computerized Saturn plant in Tennessee. Said Ann Knight, who follows the auto industry for PaineWebber: "If GM should really downsize itself, some of its need for EDS would go away." Some observers think the negotiations did not focus on the sale of EDS but on increased business -- or a possible joint venture -- between...
...Nina Anderson: a sprint freestyler from Ann Arbor, Mich., who should challenge sophomore Linda Suhs, the current Harvard record-holder, for the top spot in the 50 and 100-yd. freestyle races...