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Grind's director, Harold Prince, perhaps the foremost present-day mounter of book musicals, has said that he plans to take an informal sabbatical to ponder ways of coping with the pitfalls now facing the form. The first, simple step is one that he ought to remember from the days when he staged such shows as Cabaret and Sweeney Todd: have something worth saying and tell it in the most direct and honest way. --By William A. Henry...
...meeting where they sawed off the limb Pete Domenici was on." Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole said the arrangement amounted to "surrendering to the deficit." Growled Iowa's Charles Grassley, one of 22 Republican Senators up for re-election next year: "The President, if he can't support us, ought to keep his mouth shut...
...self-consciously civilized place, pleased by its reasonable scale and unreasonable hills, proud of the slightly loopy beaux arts buildings and the great swaths of pastel houses, altogether seduced by its own fey charms. It follows that San Francisco has a powerful sense of how San Francisco ought to look, and the new ungainly downtown skyline offends that civic vision...
...against vast social change, and culminates in an agonizing exile from a homeland that has already ceased to exist. Alan Howard plays the inventor, Gemma Jones (PBS's Duchess of Duke Street) his wife, and Jenny Agutter their servant. If plans work for bringing the show to Broadway, they ought to be imported as well...
...nuclear deterrent is the way to go. For that reason we get satisfaction from our work by contributing to our personal and national safety. It's corny--wave the flag--but it's true." As for those who dropped the Hiroshima bomb, she says that guilt or conscience ought not to be the consideration. "If a policeman shoots a felon, there's no guilt, only regret. You just wish the world had been different...