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Also right in the area is the Plaza Hotel, a favorite spot for socialites who like to linger in hotel lobbies. If you are in the mood for elegant and excellent dining, just hop downstairs to Trader Vic's, New York's premier Polynesian restaurant, located in the Plaza's lower level...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rockettes' Last Gleaming | 3/23/1978 | See Source »

...takes place at the former hobo's seashore hotel. The fresh air revives the chorus: "Linger in the Lobby" is peppy, sung and danced with a snappiness that doesn't quit till the last bows. In the lobby, the chorus lingers and mingles with larger-than-life-size cutouts of hotel guests, bell-hops and beach umbrellas, all of which give the stage an effective style halfway between art deco and '70s surrealism. None of the flesh and blood lingers in the second act. The cutouts sway and stir as each character dashes madly around. Laurel Leslie, playing Susie...

Author: By Chris Healey, | Title: Good Enough Gershwin | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

...film consistent. There is a power in this story he simply does not realize. Even so, the film shows an honest impulse to open up new realms of experience to the viewer, and there is nothing patronizing, no sense of sociopsychological slumming about it. Blue Collar may linger in the mind when a lot of slicker, more easily assimilated movies have passed .beyond recall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Union Dues | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

...world of business, joining a subsidiary of Crown Cork & Seal, where he quickly climbed to vice president and director. In 1963, he was named the U.S. ambassador to the Kennedy Round of international trade talks in Geneva. There he proved to be a tough negotiator, showing qualities that still linger. Says a Treasury aide: "I've never seen a guy who can get you on the defensive so easily. He's the master of oneupmanship. He always gets the other guy off balance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Up from Some Stumbles | 1/30/1978 | See Source »

...sometimes seems that the highest -and hardest-step in a diva's career is the one into retirement. Too many sopranos linger after their fortes have turned into shrieks. Determined to avoid that fate, Soprano Beverly Sills announced last week that she would retire in the fall of 1980. These days, even dropping out seems to require the same three-year advance planning as everything else in opera. But Sills is not retiring to write a book (she has done that already) or go on the talk shows (she has her own now). Instead, she will take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sills Calling It Quits in 1980 | 1/23/1978 | See Source »

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