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...anywhere: not as character study, not as an ersatz Chorus Line, not even as a canny exploitation of the good will engendered by Saturday Night Fever. Six years after Tony crossed the Brooklyn Bridge into the city of everyone's tattered dreams, he is stuck in a rut just off Broadway, teaching jazz dance by day, tending bar at night. Encouraged by his palfriend Jackie (Cynthia Rhodes), Tony auditions for the chorus of a musical called Satan's Alley-a sort of rock musical comedy version of Dante's Inferno-and falls for Laura, the show...
...rut dug by the Industrial Revolution? Put another way, why do so many people make friends at the office rather than among their neighbors? Prophets of the electronic cottage predict that it will once again enable people to find community where they once did: in their communities. Continental Illinois Bank, for one, has opened a suburban "satellite work station" that gets employees out of the house but not all the way downtown. Ford, Atlantic Richfield and Merrill Lynch have found that teleconferencing can reach far more people for far less money than traditional sales conferences...
After dining with the Soviet leader, Norwegian Actress Liv Ullmann gushed that "Brezhnev looks a little vain, but I feel an immediate liking for him when he takes my hand and tells me that he loved The Emigrants [her 1972 film]." Brandt's wife Rut was also taken by his gallantry. On his first state visit to West Germany, in 1973, Brezhnev kissed her hand and said, "You are the first person I am going to invite to Moscow." Cozying up beside her on a sofa, he promised that "all Moscow will lie at your feet," as a gaggle...
...dames." But, the son concludes, that summary is inaccurate: "She was good at just about everything." Yet this, too, is insufficient. He seeks further definition in 1977, when he journeys to Hawaii to replay house guest to Clare, now half-blinded by cataracts, living in "a fur-lined rut" but still capable of casting her spell...
...completely clear; and the National Basketball Association can be a particularly dreary place. "When I first came into the league in 1976," says Lucas, "the old pros told me: 'You'll be jolly and peppy for about three years, and then you'll settle into the rut. Everyone does...