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Events included the cha cha, rhumba, mambo, swing, samba, jive, waltz, fox trot and quickstep competitions...
...this is splendidly orchestrated in quickstep tempo. Aliens never forgets that its basic business is escapist, provided, of course, that your idea of escape is to give yourself over to a 2-hr. 17-min. movie that takes you up the ladder from apprehension to anxiety to fear to flat-out horror. Those big bugs are smart in their yucky way, and they are everywhere. Each time one of their human opponents opens a door or rounds a corner, you know terrible trouble is about to ensue. Anytime someone confidently announces what looks to be a foolproof plan to exterminate...
...project is vast, daring, and unique in history. How could there be a precedent for turning 1 billion people so sharply in their course, for leading one-quarter of mankind quickstep out of dogmatic isolation into the late 20th century and the life of the rest of the planet? The People's Republic of China, separated so long from the outer world by an instinctive xenophobia and an admixture of reclusive Maoism, in 1978 began its Great Leap Outward, or what Peking's propagandists call the New Long March. The Chinese, their primitive economy threadbare and their morale exhausted...
Although her film Valentino did a quickstep into oblivion, Actress Michelle Phillips isn't ready for a fadeout. She has just signed up for a starring role in Chicago Girl, a movie in which she will play an actress who impersonates a prostitute. "It's fun to go through a complete metamorphosis from a well-dressed and sophisticated woman to a tacky, slutty one," allows Michelle. Not that the ex-Mama (of the Mamas and the Papas) has been lounging around between films. The former offstage leading lady to ex-Papa John Phillips and Actors Dennis Hopper, Jack...
When spending by consumers and businesses marches along in quickstep, an economic recovery steadily gains speed. When one of the marchers lags behind, there are nagging doubts about the recovery's strength. That has been the case since March 1975; the U.S. then began pulling out of its worst recession since the Depression of the 1930s. Consumer spending has moved up, boosting demand for everything from automobiles to pantyhose. But spending by business for such items as machine tools, plants, office buildings and stores has been persistently sluggish. During the first 21 months of recovery, until last December, business...