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...composed terrific teen anthems for the girl groups. Producers Phil Specter, Shadow Morton and Holland-Dozier-Holland encased the adenoidal voices in a cushion of strings, saxophones and heartbeat percussion. In those years before rock became Ph.D. fodder, the girl-group sound married musical sophistication and the saving emotional jolt. That sound retains its power and appeal. On record, at least, the dream girls are still beautiful...
ENTERTAINING MR. SLOAN resembles electric shock therapy. One jolt causes momentary discomfort, but the current from a steady series of joits achieves a radical transformation. This play is not meant to delight us with raw sparks of wit and entertainment. It's more of a therapeutic treatment, which director Paul Warner has created to force a brutal awareness upon the vulnerable audience. The result leaves us dazed as we retrack our way from the play's hidden theater, which Warner dubs. "Behind the Iron Door of Adams House...
Everywhere one looked at the National Cable Television Association (N.C.T.A.) convention in Las Vegas last May, people were buoyant about their prospects in a business whose time apparently had come. Last week, however, cable's optimists got a jolt: communications giant CBS (1981 revenues: $4.1 billion) announced that it would shut down its critically praised but loss-plagued cultural service within 90 days. According to estimates by industry sources, the service had lost $30 million in less than a year. A dispirited Thomas F. Leahy, executive vice president of the CBS Broadcast Group, blamed the recession, and added...
Thus it was a jolt last week when AEG-Telefunken declared that it was insolvent and could not pay its bills. The unpaid debts amounted to $3.5 billion. In addition to being the largest corporate casualty in West Germany since 1945, the collapse of AEG-Telefunken symbolized the problems now facing the country that first gave birth to economic miracles. As the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung candidly observed in a front-page obituary for the company: "This marks the end of all illusions...
...amendment that would require a balanced federal budget. "I don't feel self-conscious at all," Reagan tells a press conference. He argues the (at least partial) truths that he inherited ever growing commitments from Presidents before him and that a big tax cut might be a profitable jolt for the economy. Congress performs its own impressive feats of dissociation. The polls consistently show that between 70% and 75% of Americans favor a balanced-budget amendment. It is an election year. A majority in the Senate, possibly to be echoed in the House, proceeds along the lines...