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...prodigal son, thrones for sinning kings and wise judges, and the table for the Last Supper. The lighting for the dance numbers includes a strobe light in "Bless the Lord" and red and green spotlights in several other numbers. In the "Finale," easily the most moving number a single beam shines down on Weatherstone, while the other characters, dancing wildly are silhouetted against a red light...
Hearst/ABC 's ARTS is devoting 75 minutes to a leisurely documentary on Caravaggio. HBO and Showtime make capital out of new movies, and the nationwide "superstations" beam Greta Garbo and John Wayne to more than 25 million homes. The local independent channels thrive on TV reruns: you can catch Mary Tyler Moore every night and M-A-S-H ten times a week. On the 24-hr. Cable Health Network, a psychiatrist is either preventing or precipitating a woman's emotional collapse. On an ad hoc network formed by Mobil Oil, the Royal Shakespeare Company revives Nicholas Nickleby...
...left by the area's former inhabitants, the Anasazi. For hundreds of years they lived in the canyon, creating astonishing multistoried cliff dwellings, only to vanish mysteriously at the start of the 14th century. Sofaer, visiting the site around the time of the summer solstice, noticed that a beam of sunlight sliced right through one large spiral...
Making money in the steel business these days is about as easy as rolling an I beam uphill. Nonetheless, at least two firms are still forging profits: Nucor Corp. of Charlotte, N.C., and Chaparral Steel Co. in Midlothian, Texas. In the first nine months of 1982, Nucor earned $13.4 million on sales of $379 million. Chaparral cleared $11 million last year on sales of $160 million...
...incivility is suggested by what has been happening in Houston. Drivers on Houston freeways have been showing an increasing tendency to replace the rules of the road with violent outbreaks. Items from the Houston police department's new statistical category-freeway traffic violence: 1) Driver flashes high-beam lights at car that cut in front of him, whose occupants then hurl a beer can at his windshield, kick out his tail lights, slug him eight stitches' worth. 2) Dump-truck driver annoyed by delay batters trunk of stalled car ahead and its driver with steel bolt. 3) Hurrying...