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Music hall was for Britain what vaudeville was for an earlier America and what a TV variety show often still is: a potpourri of songs, sketches and buffoonery so good-naturedly crude that it becomes accepted as the quintessential wholesome family entertainment. Few in England remember music hall; in America, even fewer have heard anything beyond the comic ditties that used to serve to round out the hour on PBS after episodes of Upstairs, Downstairs. Yet with the passion of theater people for unearthing every oddment of stage history, an off-Broadway team has assembled Charlotte Sweet, an ingratiating pastiche...
...instead of blending into a cohensive unit, the play becomes a potpourri of assorted themes and characters. Only occasionally do sparks ignite, but they only leaves the audience with an unquenched thirst for more. The conversation between Harold Ryan and his son Paul (Leo Luberecki) as Ryan tells of his adventures the audience of for a moment, as the pair's first-ever meeting proves moving. But the momentum doesn't last. Besides, we've seen enough housewives breaking out on their own and we've seen enough of macho men destroyed and replaced by the scientific, mechanized heroes...
Simmons' weekday show is a chattery potpourri of exercise ("Tuck in those tushies, girls!"), diet tips ("Peanuts will make you full!") and cheery behavior-mod patter. His Never-Say-Diet Book is No. 1 on the New York Times's bestseller list, where it has been lodged for 38 weeks. At 5 ft. 7 in., 138 Ibs., Simmons seems a model of svelte fitness, but he knows whereof he sweats. As a boy in New Orleans, he sampled so many crêpes suzette at the family's restaurant that by his 18th birthday he weighed...
...item was tucked away in a breathless potpourri of gossip on page D1 of the Washington Post. Diana McClellan, whose trendy column "The Ear" was only into its second week after shifting from the defunct Washington Star, quoted unidentified "close pals" of Rosalynn Carter as saying that Blair House, where Ronald and Nancy Reagan had stayed in preInauguration visits to Washington, "was bugged" at that time. "At least one tattler in the Carter tribe," wrote McClellan, "has described listening in to the tape itself." The item concluded: "Stay tuned, uh, whoever's listening...
Roger B. Porter, assistant professor of Public Policy. A special economics assistant in the Ford Administration, Porter now has a potpourri of economic advisory titles--in the White House, the Treasury Department, and the Office of Management and Budget. Porter was one of the people coordinating Reagan's "100 Days" program to launch the new administration's economic package...