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...highlights, though, as it features many of the show's most famous songs. Luckily, most of the cast members have strong voices. Karin Kasdin, as Jo Vanderwater, sings "Little Jazz Bird," and looks the part--tall and thin, gowned in white, her hair topped with a feather, she resembles a tip-toeing crane slinking unsuccessfully after her man. Laura Hastings, as Dick Trevor's true love, gives a beautifully evocative rendition of "The Man I Love," while spotlighted in cool blue light...
...Kanfer, if you would just clean your office once a month . . .' " What Kanfer does not mention is that he was once assaulted by a cleaning lady driven to violence over the impenetrable litter. The cause of her ire: the discovery of her long-lost feather duster under a pile of manuscripts...
...Eeesh! ... Careening out of a 180° hairpin bend, engine screaming at 6,800 r.p.m. and rear wheels adrift, the smoking blue racing machine slides perilously close to the curve, then barrels into a straightaway. "C'mon now," the driver growls through gritted teeth. "Punch that pedal! Now feather the gas! Hug that curve like your darlin...
This classic exchange may not be the last word on human aggression, but sociobiologists would admire the insight into male psychology. In their view, male displays and bravado-from antlers in deer and feather ruffling in birds to chest thumping in apes and humans-evolved as a reproductive strategy to impress females. Machismo is biologically based and says in effect: "I have good genes, let me mate...
...Bella Savitzky Abzug, there are two New Yorks. Her mayoral candidacy evokes responses from cool to hostile among those most influential and sophisticated in city affairs. Businessmen feather, and so do civil service union leaders. The three daily newspapers will support one or another of her six opponents for the Democratic nomination. Most party sachems are lining up behind either Incumbent Abraham Beame or Governor Hugh Carey's choice, New York Secretary of State Mario Cuomo. Yet if the vote were held now, the other New York would choose Bella. TIME Bureau Chief Laurence I. Barrett reports...