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...aggressive, manipulative, wheedling, insatiable-has found no more assiduous celebrators than the songwriting team of John Kander and Fred Ebb. In Cabaret, Chicago, Woman of the Year and the movie New York, New York, they have composed dozens of brassy ballads for gutsy ladies staking out their parcel of asphalt turf. No raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens for these guys. Kander's tunes have the catchy dissonance of a Broadway traffic snarl just before show time; violins cower mutely in the pit while the percussion sets a tempo of edgy energy and the horns bleat like Kurt...
Vairo learned the game on the streets of Brooklyn. Literally. He played with roller skates on asphalt, using a roll of friction tape for a puck. Until he was 21, Vairo had never put on ice skates. But soon he was hanging around New York Rangers practice sessions and reading anything he could find on the subject. By 1972 he had saved enough money to send himself to Moscow, the mecca of European hockey. "Soviet teams made magic with the puck," Vairo says. "Their tempo was quick, and they were always in superb condition. I figured this was the model...
...good or ill, the current Broadway revival brings Williams down to earth. This time the moonbeams are paved with asphalt. Though Designer Ming Cho Lee has buttressed the Wingfield's St. Louis home with fleecy clouds, he has furnished it in a sturdy naturalistic style. Director John Dexter has paced the play to move one resolute step at a time, and encouraged the actors to deliver their lines with clarion force. This is a "solid" production, but it should be buoyant. The Wingfields imbibe a kind of emotional helium; only the guy wires of propriety keep them from floating...
...eight-lane structure consists of a rubber surface supported by a rubber waffle understructure, resting on an asphalt base, which experts say gives it enough flexibility to not only increase speed, but also reduce fatigue and decrease the chance of injury. Oommen fine-tuned the compliance of the track, minimalizing the time a runner's foot is in contact with the surface to bring about these benefits...
...give Grenada $30 million in long-term economic and military aid. Some of the money is already being spent by the interim government, which has sought to create 1,000 jobs in roadwork, school construction and sanitary maintenance. U.S. Army Engineers have helped with these projects, and are repairing asphalt and rock-crushing machinery used by Grenadian work crews...