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This is especially true in the boondocks, where the men have nothing to spend their money on but beer and slot machines. This enables the 300 enlisted men's clubs and the smaller numbers of noncom and officers' clubs to rake in profits of up to $16,000 a week. The clubs, in turn, can afford to shell out from $150 to $500 a show for professional comics from Australia, dance troupes from the Philippines and rock-'n'-roll combos from the States...
Keating's self-control is crucial to that part of the moral incisiveness of Love For Love which does come through. As the play's one, unfeigned true lover (excepting his love, Angelica, played by Lucy Martin, unfortunately the most poorly drawn of Congreve's characters) Valentine, though a rake in the past, is now the man free of the life of "continued affectation" which surrounds him. In the last scene, his sincerity and sobriety provide the one dramatic moment of the Charles production which is not just funny. Then everybody starts the frug. Like the show itself, the dance...
Machine-Gunning the House. In the area of repertory, Bing's record at the old Met speaks for itself: 50 new productions, three U.S. premieres (Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress, Strauss's Arabella, Menotti's The Last Savage), and one world premiere (Barber's Vanessa). His own taste favors Italian opera; he is only lukewarm about Wagner and, with a few exceptions, indifferent to modern. Compared with Milan's La Scala or West Berlin's opera, whose repertories are laced with contemporary works, the Met, as one critic puts it, "remains...
...planning of their own education's. Then the researchers will begin to discuss the Boston community. The students will be encouraged to invite speakers and finally, if they want, to go out into the community itself--to picket or attend a school board meeting, or even, Webster says, to rake leaves...
...school was a prodigious 20 miles long by three miles wide. Some estimates place the West Coast hake population as high as 6 billion, which is quite a rake of hake...