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Attempts to use real contemporary music in musicals-like Richard Lester's two Beatles movies or Ken Russell's Tommy-have been random. A Chorus Line, hottest ticket on Broadway and destined to be filmed, is just a slick version of 1930s tears-and-tinsel show biz sagas around which production numbers were draped like rented furs. The only enterprising recent musicals have been the work of Bob Fosse; the movie Cabaret and, on Broadway, Chicago abound in the same spunk and brash vi tality eulogized in That's Entertainment. Fosse is a brilliantly low-down spirit...
...strict Evangelical. When he was Governor, he outraged some Southern Baptist clergymen by calling Georgia's ban on Sunday liquor sales hypocritical because many people patronized bootleggers on the Sabbath. One of his first acts was to end the pompous religious service that his predecessor as Governor, Lester Maddox, held in the state house every morning. Carter thought that the service was pointless...
...Lester E. Gordon, director of HIID, said yesterday that the Teheran project has encountered "many difficulties...
...comprehensive economic program that Carter will announce this week. Among his other advisers are experts as diverse as Albert Sommers, chief economist of the Conference Board, a business research group, and Carolyn Shaw Bell, a strong advocate of greater progress for women. Also in Carter's advisory group: Lester Thurow, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a liberal who had a major hand in formulating McGovern's welfare proposals, and Martin Feldstein, of Harvard, who is sufficiently conservative to have been invited to join Ford's Council of Economic Advisers...
...People who would vote for Lester Maddox because of the racial issue, would vote for Carter because of his social or economic views; he brings out the best in people, rather than the worst," Stark says...