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...biggest problem for the schools: finding qualified students in an age when women's liberation has put child care behind the "Gingham Curtain." Minimum admission requirements at most centers are a high school diploma, psychological tests and a criminal record check. Tuitions range from $900 to $2,000, prohibitive to many candidates. Typically, says North American's Bunge, "I'm attracting young women with no formal backgrounds from little towns. They already work with children, but they make peanuts...
...German and Polish officers who fought with the American colonies during the Revolutionary War. Secretary of State George Shultz joined the offensive at a congressional hearing last week. He declared that the U.S. had a "moral duty" to rescue the people of Nicaragua, who had fallen "behind the Iron Curtain." That statement seemed a bit hyperbolic. It is not established that the Sandinistas take their orders from the Kremlin the way the East bloc countries do. But it is clear that they are mightily beholden to the Soviets for a steady stream of aid and arms, and highly attentive...
Their names aren't listed in the playbill. They never appear on stage. They don't have a curtain call. Yet, the members of the technical staff of a play are just as crucial to the running of a good production as any other people involved in the theater...
...pure spectacle. The colors are brilliant, the mood ebullient. Each costume is more eyecatching than the next and the players parade by like so many peacocks after a testosterone injection. Actors jostle each other for center stage in a bawdy, drunken tussle choreographed by an inebriated genius. Then the curtain goes...
...show has no trouble catching attention. But opening night is a production unto itself, and even when the drag queens hit the stage you can't help but wonder if the real action isn't happening somewhere in your peripheral vision. Surely there was drama enough in the pre-curtain champagne slosh on the building's top floor. Middle-aged men peered eagerly at younger females, while college men gazed longingly at older women. The lines were vintage prep--"It was only a man-made beach, but the temperature's been great all week, in the seventies and eighties." Less...