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...daytime programming at CBS when he was just 25, learned at an impressionable age to cater to the ladies. Typically, each Angels episode makes sure at least one co-star strips down to a bikini in the first ten minutes, the better to keep males in a state of gape-jawed passivity and expectation thereafter. But the show also spends a more-than-usual amount of the weekly $300,000 budget on things women enjoy observing-"fashions and hair styles," as one of its producers says...
...Time magazine sends its Chicago correspondent out to cover the story. The correspondent spends two days in the district, interviews the wrong people and misspells half the important names. The weekly newsmagazine's New York headquarters adds further errors in editing, and steelworkers glancing later at the brief story gape in amazement. Time has a circulation of over 4 million...
...financial system that would replace the crisis-shattered one tied to a U.S. dollar. But all the top powers were able to bring forth was a deadline of next July 31 for really, truly agreeing on reform. Otherwise, the IMF delegates had a week to listen to speeches; gape at lions, zebras and giraffes; wander around what may be the world's most beautiful conference center; and try to avoid rip-offs on the streets...
...look at the three-legged man, the two-headed baby and the incredible snake girl. And the burlesque show: "Come on in closer, folks. We're going to offer you some entertainment, spice-wise. Yessir, we have nudity, but we do not have filth!" The fairgoers stop to gape at the barker, but not many buy tickets. The biggest line forms at the Ferris wheel, where dozens of fairgoers scream in delight as the huge jeweled wheel revolves in the darkened...
...months, repeated twice. The beginning of the play is a bizarre surging of voice and motion that rises to a fever pitch; some lines which sound strange at first haunt the whole work--they keep surfacing out of situations with a new significance each time. Many points seem to gape unresolved for a while until they suddenly snap into a coherent idea. Even last Monday new things were being tried. If the energy and tautness that the optimistic team sees as so crucial to the success of the production materialize, those who visit the Loeb this week and next, liking...