Word: beaming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...frontier of the American musical theater is wherever Harold Prince and Stephen Sondheim are. Last season, the producer-director and composer-lyricist collaborated on Company, which focused a diamond-cutting laser beam on marriage, Manhattan-style. With Follies, Prince and Sondheim, together with Choreographer and Co-Director Michael Bennett, have audaciously staked out some unknown territory. They have put together the first Proustian musical-an act of dramatic creation even more daring than making a Proustian film (see CINEMA...
...that busied generations of seamen are no longer necessary. The Europoort, for example, is coated with 600 tons of nearly impervious paint that requires a cosmetic fix only once every two years. Seasickness, which used to keep novice seamen running for the rail, is only a memory. The huge beam of the VLCCs-close to 200 ft.-makes them extremely stable, even in rough storms. Faced with up to four months at sea, Europoort's crewmen complain that the money ($300 a month) does not compensate for the monotony. More and more, oil companies are finding it difficult...
...something about it." Doing something, Cembura's way, consisted of founding antique-bottle clubs, as well as a separate organization for modern-bottle collectors ("The oldtimers," Cembura says, "are snobbish. They are only interested in bottles 60 years old or older"). Cembura's pioneer "Jim Beam Bottle Clubs of the U.S." boasted a membership of ten in 1966; today there is a national network of more than 30 affiliates, with an active total membership of well over...
...Bertha. Bulletins and magazines alert collectors to sales, trades and finds in the bottle market. Dubuque, Iowa's weekly Antique Trader, for example, regularly carries at least 15 pages devoted to the fad; a recent issue listed such hot items as Ezra Brooks' Big Bertha ($25), Beam's Gold Fox ($95), Dr. Seth Arnold's cough killer ($2), Dr. Fenner's Kidney & Backache Cure ($14) and a (misspelled) bottle of Kalamasoo heavy blob soda ($9.50). Of the moderns, Avon cologne and perfume bottles are most popular; an International Avon Collectors organization, headquartered in Mesa, Ariz...
...rate imports better by increasing its productive efficiency than by raising its protective barriers. Last week Genesco, Inc. and Hughes Aircraft showed off a jointly developed machine that may help U.S. clothing makers to compete. The machine, which looks like a miniature steel rolling mill, maneuvers a laser beam over cloth to cut garments according to computer-determined patterns. It acts with speed, accuracy and a flexibility that human cutters cannot match. It can cut a man's sport coat, a woman's skirt and a child's pair of shorts consecutively from the same roll...