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...evoke the muses. "At first," he says, "it's a thrill just to produce a melody, so the songs come tumbling out." Indeed, the early Rubins was prolific. He wrote the 26 songs of "Man's Best Friend" (his first musical--based on "Androcles and the Lion") in a month. Today, Rubins is conscious of everything he's heard before. He says he doesn't want to reproduce other works. "When I hear even three notes that are a familiar figure, I try to rework them...
...when he is out there on the stage, being cheered as a global lion-tamer, he cannot resist the temptation to join in the applause. Once at a large Washington dinner a man walked up to him and said, "Dr. Kissinger, I want to thank you for saving the world." "You 're welcome," he replied...
...boys' suits, topcoats and overcoats at more than 700 plants in 30 states. They include facilities of such well-known companies as Hart Schaffner & Marx, Phillips-Van Heusen and Kayser-Roth. Many strikers were so unprepared for the transformation of their union from mouse to lion that some locals felt compelled to conduct informal crash courses to brief them on strike duties, and full-dress picketing was delayed for a day at some plants because union leaders had forgotten to have placards printed...
...sales went up 19.6% and their profits 39% from 1972. Both gains were the biggest in the 20-year history of the survey. Oil companies, not surprisingly, posted the largest profit gains, a median 53.3%. Exxon, while remaining second to General Motors in sales ($25.7 billion to $35.8 bil lion) passed GM by almost every other measure: profits ($2.44 billion to $2.40 billion), assets and stockholders' equity. But many other industries did almost as well: paper and wood-products makers, mining companies and textile manufacturers all registered median profit increases of more than 45%. Only nine...
Frank Baum was a populist who tried to get his views across in many less oblique media than children's stories but failed until he wrote Oz. Adaptations usually make changes that obscure his intentions--Dorothy's slippers were silver, not ruby, in the book. The Cowardly Lion is William Jennings Bryan, who never went far enough, for Baum, towards removing the farmer from his "cross of gold." The Wicked Witch of the West, then as now, is the Republican party. And the Wizard of Oz is none other than Grover Cleveland, who promised free silver and then told...