Word: lane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...main lines of the plot have been retained, but they constitute what has become a standard trip down paranoia lane. Who are all these vaguely menacing character actors? What are their motives for knocking off a man we must assume is either a President or a presidential candidate...
Nostalgia is Broadway's top growth industry. And how could a stroll down the fond memory lane of great musicals be complete without a revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I? The first and only true King, Yul Brynner, still rules the stage in the way that a mountain peak dominates its surroundings, and he has proved as immutable in appearance. Audiences have been humming the enduring, enchanting score ever since the opening night of 26 years ago. This production dwarfs recent musicals in its opulence. The dances, originally choreographed by Jerome Robbins, are drolly...
...that Julius Erving jumps is to describe Beethoven as a guy who wrote music. Dr. J. ascends. He springs into the air at the foul line, floats down the side of the lane, holding the basketball in his right hand. Still airborne, he swivels, turns his back to the basket, switches the ball to his other hand and cleanly flips a soft, lefthanded hook shot into the net. On the floor, play resumes at a dazed half-speed as opposing players stand in disbelief...
...noted that the town of Mashpee, Mass., has filed a counterclaim for $200 million as the cost of improvements. Who ever told the white man that a $100,000 house is an improvement over a do-it-yourself teepee? Is a six-lane paved highway with speeding autos an improvement over the dirt road between villages...
Granum mentions the lunch that Carter will have in about an hour with George Meany and a platoon of angry labor leaders. He notes that the AFLCIO'S No. 2 man, Lane Kirkland- who in a blistering address the day before charged Carter with failing to keep his promises to the "working people"-has said labor would be willing to support the Administration's tax-reduction proposals in return for the President's backing of a comprehensive labor-reform law. "How should we respond in public to Kirkland's remarks?" Granum asks...