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...with personnel, who were shrewdly and in some cases daringly chosen. The upshot is a gorgeous production that not only honors the past but also celebrates the present. It showcases the leading director of this era, Jerry Zaks, and the leading designer, Tony Walton, each in peak form. In Faith Prince it makes a new musical star of Ethel Merman-size potential...
...Last Recordings can only deepen the mystery, for the new two-CD set displays Shaw at the peak of his powers. Recorded with the Gramercy Five, as Shaw called the combo he occasionally assembled around him, these 20 tracks were laid down only months before he retired. Some were fleetingly available on LP years ago; the rest were never released. They are sublime chamber jazz -- close-knit yet relaxed, subtle, pulsing with the interplay of brilliant sidemen like pianist Hank Jones and guitarist Tal Farlow...
...process began after World War II, when veterans by the thousands moved their families to suburbs like New York's Levittown. The draining of the cities accelerated during the 1960s and '70s, when malls sprouted across the nation, diverting shoppers from downtown business districts. And it reached a peak during the 1980s, when employers joined the exodus from cities, transferring millions of jobs to suburban office parks. Now about half of America's 250 million people live in the suburbs, and only one-quarter in central cities...
This weekend in Bethlehem, that type of pressure, no mater what Kleinfelder desires, will rise to a peak, akin to say, squatting naked at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean...
...phone, and calls made to the 700 number will be routed there by AT&T's computers (that may seem excessive, but some people now have to enter 28 numbers to make a long- distance credit-card call). The caller pays 25 cents a minute for long- distance during peak hours and 15 cents off peak, comparable to most current rates...