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...Just as buoyant is the score. How could it not be, with Broadway's premier songwriting siblings near the top of their form? The title tune got to #8 on the hit parade, and two others, "Who Cares?" and "Love Is Sweeping the Country," still put a 2/4 spring in the step of many a geriatric. But the score was no succession of stand-alone ballads and dance tunes. Ira referred to the show as an operetta and, in the Gilbert and Sullivan mode, each song fits into the plot, advances the improbable story and fleshes out the characters...
...active cosmetics in Russia, who wants to open a similar concept store in 10 major Russian cities over the next three years. It seems to work: both Vichy and La Roche-Posay have quickly established themselves as leading brands in Russia, and sales growth is buoyant. The real beauty of it all, of course, is that Russia as a whole is benefiting...
...Avant-garde art is hard; dying is easy. In 1991, languishing with a fatal bout of AIDS in a Manhattan hospital, the lifelong kvetch was suddenly buoyant. The longtime starving artist told playwright Ron Tavel, "It?s the best food I?ve had in my life." His mind has sustenance too: dreams of his eternal movie goddess, Maria (not Mario) Montez...
...decidedly more upbeat than its predecessor, but not exactly carefree. The two strode onstage from opposing corners with newspapers pulled tightly against their faces; when they reached striking distance of each other, they dropped their pages and began circling and lunging at each other like punch-drunk prizefighters. The buoyant strains of No Smoking Orchestra’s “Bubamara” played in the background, giving the dancers’ aggressive posturing a cartoonish quality. The standout performance of the evening was “Shelter,” a solo piece choreographed and performed by Marin...
...underpinning for stocks' strong performance, global bulls say, is straightforward. Economic growth continues to be strong in places where it has been buoyant for several years (the U.S., China and India) and is finally picking up in places where it had been notably absent?Japan and parts of "old" Europe. In Germany, Europe's largest economy, the Ifo Business Climate Index, a key indicator of economic health, reached a 15-year peak last month. Moreover, earnings and corporate balance sheets around the world are as healthy as they have been in years. In Japan, corporate profits have climbed for four...