Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...maiden voyage by late March or early April, two months behind schedule. The delays have already cost more than $3 million. And the tab could climb still higher. At week's end technicians found that a lashing rainstorm had left deposits of fine grit, possibly beach sand or salt crystals, inside the payload bay. This could mean an expensive, time-consuming cleanup...
...crash. Director Robert Lieberman overlooks no cliche and lets no banality pass him by. For collectors of awkward moments, treasures abound; but the best such moment takes place beneath the Pyramids. Nothing is permanent, Voight tells his children, and some day even these mighty monuments will be mere sand. And, by the way, there's some bad news about Mommy...
...infectiously good time. This is the American Repertory Theater's first venture into the form of the musical, and many of the company's members are making their debuts as singers and dancers. The voices hold up surprisingly well, ranging from the operatic soprano of Susan Larson (who sand io Oriando last year) to the amusingly gruff song-speech of Jeremy Geidt. And while the dancing is not going to put Tommy Tune out of work, there are some fine numbers, including an amusingly effeminate soft-shoe by Harry S. Murphy ("Dear Old Syracuse"), a terrific trio by Susan Larson...
...this, Aspen needs to convince itself that its old ways will no longer work. "Greed dominates the town. There was an arrogance toward tourists that used to prevail," said Thomas Richardson, the former president of the Aspen Skiing Corp. "People put their heads in the sand and said, 'We're the best.' Suddenly, we're not No. 1 any more. Now Aspen has a reputation as a rip-off community." The town's troubles are not likely to lead to a bust similar to the one Aspen experienced after Congress repealed the Sherman Silver-Purchase...
Another chapter, on the Laffer curve, features Arthur Laffer defending his famous doodle, and David Henderson, senior staff economist for the Council of Economic Advisers, concluding that any case for tax cuts based on that model "is a castle made of sand." Whoever is right, the arguments are worth reading...