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USED TO BE, life at the movies was faster, meatier, and larger than what we saw every day. The women were hotter, and their men were cooler. Enemies sought an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, but friendship was thicker than blood. As Pauline Kael put it, it was "kiss kiss, bang bang...
...Much hotter disagreement came over both the form and extent of tax cuts for companies and investors. In itself that marks a profound shift in tax philosophy. Past cuts have been aimed pri marily at giving consumers more after-tax dollars to spend, in the hope that their buying would lift the economy; business spending to build new plants, modernize machinery and introduce new products was expected to follow automatically. But investment now is very low, and the absorbing question of tax policy has become how to design cuts to spur the largest rise in investment...
...cause of all this commotion is Evita, a pop opera that opened to rave reviews in late June. A hotter West End commodity than either A Chorus Line or Annie, this song-and-dance account of Argentine First Lady Eva Perón (1919-52) may be the biggest London smash since Jesus Christ Superstar opened there six years ago. Like Superstar, which will soon pass Oliver! to become England's alltime longest-running musical, Evita is the creation of Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and Lyricist Tim Rice. Both shows also share a producer, Robert Stigwood, who is best...
...plant's construction design made the project vulnerable to controversy from the start because the power company planned to cool its twin 1,150-megawatt nuclear reactors by drawing sea water from three miles offshore through a 19-ft.-diameter tunnel, and returning the water, 39° F. hotter, to the ocean. The issue was supposed to have been settled in 1974, when the Environmental Protection Agency required that all new nuclear plants use concrete cooling towers, which dissipate the heat through evaporation and may cost more than $60 million...
...mission over there--"simply to annihilate"--also began to bother him. "We'd take an area and a few months later go back and take the same piece of land again." And it was hot, hotter than the other wars, and tougher. He had contracted malaria and suffered a concussion from a grenade. "I wanted to live," he says matter-of-factly...