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...Francisco State University, an electric fan, running some 14 hours a day, is all that keeps the library's transformer from overheating-and breaking down. At an Ivy League university, maintenance crews had to tie rags around floor-to-ceiling columns to funnel water leaking from the roof into buckets. When full, the buckets were emptied out a nearby window and set back in place...
Frank W. Snepp III was one of the last Americans to be evacuated by helicopter from the roof of the U.S. embassy in Saigon in the frantic hours before the city's fall on April 30, 1975. Snepp, then 31 and a senior analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency, with 4½ years experience in Viet Nam, thought the agency's withdrawal planning had been shockingly inept, particularly in that hundreds of local CIA collaborators were simply left behind to meet whatever fate awaited them. After he returned to Washington, where he was awarded the agency...
...full impact of Robbins' inspiration is visible at Broadway's Minskoff Theater, because the choreographer decided to duplicate West Side's original staging himself. It is the first time he has worked on Broadway since Fiddler on the Roof in 1964. The intervening years have been well spent: as a fellow ballet master with George Balanchine at the New York City Ballet, he has added more than 30 works to that company's repertory. This winter, at N.Y.C.B., Robbins also revived Fancy Free, the ground-breaking ballet that first brought him fame in 1944. The story...
...Wall boosts the Floyd through the roof...
...Maria that is quite affecting. Marshall's handsome Tony is more wood than flame, and the incendiary performance is given by Debbie Allen as Bernardo's girlfriend Anita. This woman sizzles like a severed power line. When she dances, sings and blasts her way through America, the roof of the theater starts to buckle...