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...Chicago opening of a musical based on Working, Author Studs Terkel's 1974 bestseller. Directed by Composer Stephen Schwartz (Pippin, God spell), the play is a working man's Chorus Line telling, in separate episodes, the stories of such characters as a steelworker, a supermarket checker, a teacher, a switchboard operator and a parking-lot attendant. The cast exuberantly hauls around ladders, scaffolds and dollies to tunes written for the show by James Taylor and others. The message? Says Terkel, whose book was based on 135 taped interviews: "Working people are brighter than we think. Their jobs...
...Checker assures you, "Sure, ma'am, we'll have someone right over...
...merits of the pollution-cutting catalytic converter and the recently abandoned rotary engine, and supported development of the air-bag safety system. His motto at the corporation was "Kick the hell out of the status quo." Cole retired from GM in 1974 and had taken over Checker Motors, intending to produce a more efficient taxi. "Once you have it in your blood," he often said, "you're always looking for solutions to problems...
...Harvard junior varsity hockey team defeated the visiting UMass Minuteman 6-3 last night in a game that featured more twists than a Chubby Checker dance routine. The contest was more than a game--it was an experience...
...others Mathilde, an earthmother figure, is a little shallow she massages away others' worries but never quite interacts with them. But for the most part, they are wonderfully human, and their idiosyncrasies become strangely endearing. Perhaps the nicest character is that of Marie, a tousled blonde supermarket checker who blithely undercharges anyone she feels has been cheated by the system but there is also Marco, a pudgy history teacher philosopher with bizarre theories of time and history; or Mathieu, a devout Marxist, who identified himself only as "Labour", trapped in the machinations of capital, a former union organizer who goes...