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Gradually the Fiedler formula evolved: lilting semiclassics, what he called gumdrops, or popular tunes, and some serious music: Stravinsky, Handel, concertos. The idea spread to other symphonies, but Fiedler's popularity was patented. Critics called his concerts "the classiest jukebox in the world." Retorted Fiedler: "A Strauss waltz is as good a thing of its kind as a Beethoven symphony. It's nice to eat a good hunk of beef but you want a light dessert too. That's what the Pops is." He had an uncanny ability to gauge the tastes of the times. He orchestrated...
...There's only a subscription boom." Newman should know. He has made the "fickle" single-ticket buyer expendable in many American cities. As a consultant to the Ford Foundation since 1961, he has criss-crossed the country teaching theater companies how to set up subscription drives. His formula: subscribe now. Those two words are blazoned on the brochures announcing the schedules of thousands of performing companies. Sometimes there is a hinted threat: subscribe by June 15 or subscribe before bookings close. Large-scale mailings are backed by telephone solicitations or offers of discounted tickets. In his book, Subscribe...
...next to your T.V. set. But Roger Moore as James Bond in Moonraker finally clicks thanks to the film's luxurious backdrops, reasonably intelligent dialogue, cutesy references to other contemporary films, beautiful members of both sexes, and a hit man who'll bite on anything--in short, the old formula. And, to top it off, 007 really does DO IT in space...
...South" and that "the Watergate hearings went on and on," such external events have little effect on her women. When they gather for a 20th reunion in 1977, their preoccupations are unaltered: clothes and contraception, careers and families, the right cars and the right men. It is a formula that Jaffe has cannily employed in her earlier books, and a sequel may soon provide another: in the epilogue, Annabel's daughter Emma is looking forward to going to-where else?-Radcliffe...
Essentially, that formula tosses the ball to the new British government of Tory Margaret Thatcher. The British, who began the imposition of economic sanctions against their former colony, are trying to set up a conference that would bring together the government of Zimbabwe-Rhodesia and its black guerrilla opponents. If such a conference makes some progress, or the British decide to lift their sanctions, Carter could gracefully follow London's lead...