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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Directors Harry Dorfman and Patty Woo are unfailingly faithful to Tom Jones's 1959 script, and that is the production's greatest weakness. The unabashed sappiness of the romance between Matt (Rick Farrar) and Luisa (Cathy Weary) demands an audience steeped in bad musicals to be funny. Out of historical...

Author: By Harry W. Printz, | Title: Kirkland to Enterprise | 11/2/1977 | See Source »

With only piano, harp and bass at his disposal, musical director and piantist Dan Ullman achieves a surprising spectrum of moods with the score. Except for the touching ballad "Try to Remember," the songs are musically undistinguished. Still, the musical numbers are the strong points of the show. Matt and...

Author: By Harry W. Printz, | Title: Kirkland to Enterprise | 11/2/1977 | See Source »

Corporate executives are by no means alone in that uncertainty. Stock traders are so unsure about the direction of the economy that their selling selling has driven down the Dow Jones industrial average about 19% so far this year, from 1,000 at the end of 1976 to under 810...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Carter: a Problem of Confidence | 10/31/1977 | See Source »

Bert Lance. Businessmen did not think Carter should have kept Lance as Director of the Office of Management and Budget; some, indeed, regard the President's long defense of Lance as evidence of unreasonable stubbornness. Nonetheless, now that Lance is gone, they feel they have lost their only real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Carter: a Problem of Confidence | 10/31/1977 | See Source »

The interrogation was a meaningless charade, Keating realizes, because Jones based it on the false assumption that he and his viewers lived in a society which frowned on free enterprise and the profit motive.

Author: By Adam W. Glass, | Title: Cold Comfort | 10/28/1977 | See Source »

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