Word: kit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ALTHOUGH FISH-NET STOCKINGED Kit Kat Klub Girls flirtatiously slink into the audience early on the Cabot House Production of Cabaret never completely ensnares us. The play offers views of both a presumably typical Berlin music-hall in the early 1930s and the particular strains on relationships at the time, but occasional unevenness and sluggishness in performances and direction too often dispel strong promises for both lasciviousness and poignancy. Unfortunately, even several strong performances and specific scenes cannot carry this tale of decadent. Nazi-ascendent Berlin...
...convincing Satan-like figure, and he is suitably disconcerting as he belts out a mighty anthem to "The Fatherland." His two bizarre, but rather lightweight, numbers. "Two Ladies" and "If They Could See What I See" are enacted with commendable energy. His "Money, Money", done with one of the Kit Kat Klub Girls, is strong, but lacks the vitality of Joel Grey's exquisite film rendition...
...like Angel with lines like "You're living in a dream world, baby,"; the college counselor, who visits Angel's roach-ridden tenement in an I Magnan's dress to save the bright, ambitious student; and, of course, the strectfelk--including the protective transvestite, the pistol-toting imitator of Kit Carson, and the tobacco-chewing; gun-wielding landlord...
...expected, the Marines are unable to turn the military base and airport over to the Lebanese Army, the last contingent would probably leave secretly at night. The unit's departure would be announced only after its 100 or so members, carrying little more than their personal weapons and kit bags, are safely aboard Sixth Fleet ships...
...keep the cash flowing until their products pay off, many biotechnology companies have been looking for fresh capital infusions and alliances with big chemical and pharmaceutical manufacturers. Cytogen (fiscal 1983 revenues: $383,000), a small Princeton, N.J., firm, for example, has developed a kit for diagnosing gonorrhea. But it sold the technology to Health Care Manufacturer Becton Dickinson of Paramus, N.J., which will actually make the product...