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...politics, and its first three-day stop is Des Moines, chosen for its central geographic location. To show they mean business, the Dems have rather pretentiously called their course a National Training Academy. It is mostly a mix of skull sessions and pep talks in the garish, maroon-walled ballroom of the Hotel Savery. The subsidized tuition is a modest $95, described by Party Political Director Ann Lewis as "low enough to attract, but high enough to require serious commitment. Lewis is delighted that 240 "students," a third of them women, have come from 30 states to soak up from...
...starts with an exhortation from National Committee Chairman Charles T. Manatt, 45, to "rekindle, renew, and put together the building blocks for victory in 1982." Then the lights are dimmed and the enemy appears: Ronald Reagan, in his Sept. 24 address, asking for more budget cuts. He dominates the ballroom from six big color monitors. There is surprisingly little booing and barracking from the partisan audience. "The man may be selling snake oil," observes Jim Hepworth, a farmer who is party chairman in Minnesota's Blue Earth County. "But he sure sells it well...
FILM: "Coal Miner's Daughter"; Levin Ballroom; Friday...
...same place you were 54 years ago." In 1927, he notes, a straight play could be produced for $10,000 to $40,000 and a musical for $35,000 to $70,000. Last year it cost $450,000 to bring Lanford Wilson's Fifth of July to Broadway; and Ballroom, Michael Bennett's intended successor to A Chorus Line, was a $2 million flop ?figures that help explain the dizzying rise in ticket prices (see chart...
Bernard Shaw is one of the few preachers whose sermons wake you up. The stage is his pulpit. It is also his concert hall, ballroom and battlefield...