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...depend on his avoidance of waste, has known this for a long time. The consumer is now learning it on a broad scale, and the evidence can be found in any American kitchen. Take the case of the housewife who reels out a yard or so of expensive aluminum foil to catch the drippings from her Sunday chicken. Her husband may argue that this is waste. The wife will contend that it saves her the work of scrubbing the oven. Worth it? In a peasant economy, the wife's time would be worth very little, the aluminum...
Perhaps the best thing about this production is that it isn't just a foil for two virtuosi. Kenneth Macmillan's choreography, a mixture of classical ballet and freestyle, tells a story, not an easy thing to do in the case of Romeo and Juliet. It is hard for mutes to establish the family relationships involved, and when a letter is delivered they can indicate that it contains bad or good news but not what news. Nevertheless, Macmillan makes the plot clear and moving. When the stage is full for the crowd scenes, he coordinates the whole corps de ballet...
...kept trying. In Connecticut, she had to follow a Hungarian violinist who made everyone cry; one night in the Catskills, her routine was interrupted by round-by-round reports on the Patterson-Johansson fight; in Quebec, she was foil to Kudabux, the Man with the X-Ray Eyes; in Bridgeport, Conn., the manager blared over the loudspeaker...
...Finance and Economics Minister Michel Debre. "Any device for the creation of additional reserves would, by definition, immediately provide countries currently in deficit with the means to postpone, against their own best interests, recourse to the classical process of adjustment." In other words, a new reserve would foil France's plan to make the U.S.-and others-settle accounts in gold...
...contours as well. Britain's Eduardo Paolozzi used eleven colors for Wittgenstein in New York, incorporated such city elements as jets, skyscrapers, and the man from a Bufferin ad to tick off hectic modern life. Roy Lichtenstein printed his Moonscape on metallic plastic that shimmers like aluminum foil. Claes Oldenburg made a serigraph print and attached a rust-colored felt...