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Since Congress increasingly favors some sort of excess profits tax on the industry, a number of companies are coming around to a grudging acceptance of the idea, just as long as the levy would contain a so-called plowback provision that would permit them to reduce windfall taxes by investing the money in exploration. Congress could well go along with a plowback. Though Carter has attacked the scheme as a loophole "that you can sail an oil tanker through," he may find that without a plowback he will have real trouble getting...
...spiritual emptiness that is much on his mind is by making a series of individual moral choices, based essentially on an instinctive sense of right or wrong. "We have to go at it the hard way, and come to terms with the fact that the universe seems to contain only the grimmest possibilities. We have to develop structures of our own that encourage us to believe that it genuinely pays to make the moral choice just from the pragmatic point of view...
...obvious pressure of inflation which strains cultural institutions of every variety. Of all the performing arts opera is the most extravagant--combining as it does the costs of a major theater and a symphony orchestra with the fees of prima donnas and temperamental tenors. An opera house cannot contain more than a few thousand seats without forcing singers' voices beyond their capacity, limiting the revenue available from ticket sales. The Met is squeezing as much as it can out of its ticket-buyers; at $40 an orchestra seat next season (up from $37.50 this year), an evening at the opera...
This Tommy will not possess the likes of Elton John or Tina Turner. But it does contain a corps of trained dancers, some professional or pre-professional. In one six-minute number. they perform a hybrid of jazz and ballet combinations choreographed to vintage rock music. Tommy also boasts some sophisticated multimedia effects; obviously, the show demands that attention be paid to sound and lighting. We sincerely hope the change of scene hasn't irrepairably disrupted the production, and that the show opens with enthusiasm and expertise undiminished...
Every so often, watching a Broadway show is like going on an archaeological dig. Unfortunately, these dramatic tombs contain no King Tut treasures. They are stacked with dusty relics that a museum curator might choose to label Homo theatralis, extinct since some time in the early...