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...eternal glitter, gold is not lustrous to mine. Modern prospectors use bulldozers and giant stone crushers, processing seven tons of ore to recover a single ounce of gold. Stimulated by high prices, mining intensified in the late 1970s and has now reached boom stages...
...second Democratic theme is to present the party as one of hard, tough realism, willing to look beyond the glitter of temporary prosperity and demand the sacrifices necessary to head off a calamitous bust. Thus Mondale in his acceptance speech became perhaps the first candidate ever to run for President on a pledge to raise taxes. To lower the deficit, he said, "that must be done. Mr. Reagan will raise taxes, and so will I. He won't tell you. I just did." Mondale also vowed to cut federal spending, telling Congress, in words that sounded odd from...
EXPECTING. Meredith Baxter Birney, 36, star of the TV sitcom Family Ties, and David Birney, 42, star of the recent TV mini-series Master of the Game and of next season's Glitter: twins, their second and third children; in October; in Los Angeles. Taping of new Family Ties episodes has started, and in the grand tradition of I Love Lucy the show's story line will follow Birney's pregnancy all the way to the birth...
Cinderella is neither parody nor camp extravagance, nor is it a conventional story ballet. The sets and costumes, by Santo Loquasto, are opulent, if heavy on glitter. The fairy tale is told straight, as indicated by Sergei Prokofiev's richly melodic score. But instead of emphasizing welling emotions and magic spells, the choreographers are brisk...
From the distant and almost unchallengeable position of one of the elder statesmen of Motown. Gaye did not yield to the glitter favored by his flashier colleague Diana Ross. Instead, he kept a strain of witty criticism in his early seventies recordings. While Ross was yielding to the strain of music that can most accurately be called "disco," Gaye recorded songs like "Troubled Man," that commented on the loneliness of the early and mid-seventies even as he encouraged libidinal freedom with songs like "Let's Get it On" and "I Want You." It was this unique mixture of incisive...