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...still, by the standards of most musicals, very good indeed. Nicholas Wyman is a delightfully silly Freddy Eynsford-Hill, the bumbling aristocrat who falls in love with Eliza at Ascot and thereafter spends most of his time burbling love songs on the street where she lives. Milo O'Shea, who plays her father, Alfred P. Doolittle, is a fine and feisty rogue, and Jack Gwillim manages to be both good-hearted and hopelessly stuffy, just as Colonel Pickering, that confirmed old bachelor, should be. Cecil Beaton's black-and-white costumes will always cause gasps of pleasure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Still Loverly | 8/31/1981 | See Source »

...them the chairmanship of the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority--into control of every major construction project in the city from the late 1920's to the early 1970s. He built highways, bridges, parks, housing, and a vast array of public edifices among them Lincoln Center, the United Nations. Shea Stadium, and Co-op City...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Robert Moses, 1888-1981 | 8/4/1981 | See Source »

This is precisely the company's goal. With corporate loyalty as outmoded as the 3? postage stamp, Mitchell Energy and many other American companies are examining ways to cut down on job hopping. According to Deutsch, Shea & Evans, a New York executive search firm, most companies expect half of their new employees to leave within five years. Booming industries like energy and computers are among the hardest hit, and some oil companies lose 30% or more of their exploration geologists each year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gold Handcuffs | 7/27/1981 | See Source »

...Otherwise it was pure, consistent Koch, goading his listeners, giggling with malice ("heh, heh, heh"), shining among the crossed oars and dead dignitaries on the walls, as he shone everywhere else he went that day (in appearances at City Hall; Washington Square Park; Gracie Mansion, the official residence; at Shea; in Queens; at the Yale Club) moving right along, touting his achievements the way politicians do, but more openly, aggressively than most, the insistent nasal voice assuring all audiences equally that the city was in the very

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Mayor for All Seasons | 6/15/1981 | See Source »

...public transportation and suggests buying a helicopter to "fly straight over the dog-poop." He is urged to invest his money elsewhere than in his shoe, dress more expensively and circulate with other celebrities. The result is Zuckerman in nighttown with a glamorous Irish actress named Caesara O'Shea who reads Kierkegaard and disappears in the morning to continue her top-secret affair with Fidel Castro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Million-Dollar Misunderstanding | 5/25/1981 | See Source »

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