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...show seems set up as a parody of the musical comedy medium, the child of all of the "serious" musicals that we have. LaZebnik inflates the institutions of musicals--torch songs, soft-shoe, romantic ballads--and then colors them with subtle witty lyrics and musical jokes: the entr'acte is a fourfold repeat of one song, and typically Show-type" harmonies are colored with dissonance or humorous rhythms. One of the greatest problems in most musicals is the transition from dramatic scenes to musical numbers. The history of shows displays a constant struggle to find new, unexpected ways to introduce...
Special relationships between senior journalists and high officials are relatively common in Washington. Such bonds are perhaps inevitable and often helpful in obtaining both hard news and perspective. Nonetheless, there can be hazards. Journalists who enjoy unusual entrée on the political heights can raise the eyebrows of less-favored colleagues. Even a newsman of Reston's integrity and prestige risks the suspicion that a particular relationship can dull his critical edge when he comments on that official...
Since it was kicked out of the U.N. in 1971, Taiwan has become ever more isolated diplomatically. But its emissaries have proved adept at gaining entrée to the markets and financial centers of some of the very nations that have barred them from foreign ministries. As a result, the island country has attracted enough trade and investment to overtake even Japan in the speed of its economic growth...
...allowed to retain control of the rich Hartford Fire Insurance Co. and ordered to sell off lesser companies. The fact that the decision was favorable does not prove that it resulted from open access to top Government officials. But it suggests that ITT had a strange and wonderful entrée to the inner sanctums of the Republican Administration that was in no way cut off during the antitrust proceedings...
...their r's like guttural hyenas on second-rate recordings of Handel oratorios. Fuller and McCarthy also sang well; Lise Landis, the clown Apollinaire described in one of his less inspired couplets as "Zanzibar's Monsieur Lacouf/Who died and died again without saying ouf," joined Peter Kellogg in an entr'acte dance that was both comic and lyrical...