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...Chorus Line, which continues to wow 'em on Broadway a decade after it opened, is hardly a perfect musical. The songs are functional, not indelible. The dialogue wallows in the least engaging of performer emotions, narcissism and self-pity. The plot asks you to believe that performers in a musical are selected on a kind of psychiatrist's casting couch, spilling their secret sordid pasts to the director. Yet the thing worked onstage as a puissant metaphor for shab-elegant show biz, where exhibitionism and humiliation dance in precise sync, where each passion must be displayed nakedly and clothed...
...owned company (1984 revenues: $139 million) works twelve-hour days and shows no signs of slacking off. Not content to preside over Ebony and Jet magazines, three radio stations and a thriving cosmetics business, Johnson has launched two new ventures: a syndicated TV show called Ebony/ Jet Showcase! and EM: Ebony Man, which he calls a "fashionable-living magazine for black...
...EM is aimed primarily at the growing ranks of increasingly affluent buppies (black urban professionals). Like a black version of Gentlemen's Quarterly, the inaugural November issue is filled with photos of immaculate male models decked out in silk ties, Shetland-wool blazers and camel-hair overcoats. Mixed in with fashion and grooming tips are articles on health, fitness, personal finance and shopping techniques. Examples from the first issue: "A Guide to Investing in a Leather Couch" and a nutrition column that discusses whether one should "eat three meals or nibble like a bird...
...jail, I think people with drug problems, alcohol problems, burglaries, thefts, car-jackings, anything that's not a violent crime, should be tried to be treated through rehab. I really do. But as far as pedophilia and sex crimes, I really don't think those can be rehabbed. Put 'em in, and throw away...
...Fitzpatrick said at the time. “I worked reunions and all the alumni that came back [said], ‘You guys have done well versus Yale the past few years,’ and ‘Oh, we beat ’em three times when I was here. It was great,’ and that’s sort of how they define their careers at Harvard, is winning the big game...