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...show's unforgettable moments. In this scene, Raphael also reminds us of Orton's message that we are all guests in this camp by having the two couples start off sitting in the audience. Wisely, Raphael keeps the pace fast and furious and never lets the audience off this roller coaster ride of a show...
...than spectacle. In the nine films he made with Ginger Rogers between 1933 and 1939, most of their great numbers were not performed on a stage. Shot full figure in long takes, the pair tapped across park bandstands in the rain (Isn't This a Lovely Day?) and on roller skates (Let's Call the Whole Thing Off), and used an entire country club in The Yam number, which for compressed intricacy may have been their most heart- stopping routine. But more than skill and wit informed their partnership. Rogers, as Critic Arlene Croce said, offered Astaire a "genial resistance...
...control the volatile relationship between the U.S. dollar and other currencies through tighter coordination of economic policies (see box). The agreement was easy to reach, but the goal proved difficult to accomplish: despite a spate of follow-up meetings among economic leaders, market forces sent the dollar on a roller-coaster plunge in relation to the Japanese yen and the West German mark...
...hippie gypsies and other street-smart naifs. One story is a kelped and matted address delivered by a castaway young woman to the baby inside her; another, the erotically charged rural reminiscence of an old lady; a third, the juiced-up riff of a 20-year-old rock 'n' roller, strutting his stuff with the swagger of the vulnerable...
...Chicago White Sox are the team with the greatest image problem. Nothing could have ever prepared Windy City denizens for the roller-coaster ride the Chisox image consultants have put them through over the past couple of decades...