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...Sondheim-as-Jacques-Brel image to which Marry Mc A Little pays homage is among the more limited of these roles, perhaps because it is set so firmly in one particular milieu. The songs that make up this essentially plotless revue about a man and woman--each alone on a Saturday night in the same apartment building--could not possibly refer to any society but that of upper-middle-class singles in Manhattan. There are references to reading the Sunday Times, or Saturday night prowling various bars, putting up with parents and their querulous worries about their kids...
...pace never lags, supported by Richard A. Shore's brisk musical direction and David Reiffel's sophisticated, rapid-fire blocking. After 19 successive dousings in intense musical emotion, the audience probably couldn't manage more than the hour the show occupies. Marry Mc A Little isn't cathartic, and it doesn't leave the satisfying sense that Sondheim has worked out the problems of love; then again, no one would really expect him to. Instead, his insights are left vacue enough and universal enough to roll anybody up, and that makes the show as good...
...forced to become more efficient. The American Hospital Association has been running seminars in recent months to teach administrators how to cope with the new rules. Though the A.H.A. generally supports the regulations, it also believes that they will radically alter the nature of care. Predicts A.H.A. President Alex Mc-Mahon: "Hospitals may tend to specialize in the services they perform most efficiently." In areas where there are too many maternity beds, for example, some hospitals may drop their obstetrics units. Hospitals that lose money on such complicated procedures as open-heart surgery may refer cardiac patients elsewhere...
Sorensen predicted that the added importance of television coverage would probably help Hart's chances of heating the Democratic frontrunners. He explained that TV has generally been a boon to dark horse candidates citing McGovern's upset of then Sen Edmand Muskie (D-Mc) in the 1972 primaries and Jimmy Carter's emergence from obscurity...
Regional Tournament at Orono. Mc...