Word: shows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is nothing yet to show for all the expense except for a nine-story welded-steel skeleton. But the plans for the Philip A. Hart Senate Office Building (the Senate's third such building) call...
Along the way, Diane quizzes the group on Elvis trivia: "What was the third television show he appeared on?" Everyone seems to know: "The Ed Sullivan Show!" Diane asks another: "What was the song Elvis sang at a state fair in Tupelo in 1946 to win second prize?" Nancy Jones, 13, who has come all the way from Tulsa with her grandmother, knows right off. Old Shep, she says...
...bring about a change. He ordered the post office, West Germany's biggest federal employer (480,000 workers), to start three-day courses in better behavior for its counter clerks. Among the lessons: no grimacing or staring; keep a "friendly, open facial expression"; "nod your head to show approval and consent"; avoid use of the insultingly familiar pronoun du. So far, about 15,000 of 30,000 postal counter clerks have taken the etiquette course. Reports a post office official: "It's going well; the clerks are really friendlier afterward...
...notables in the cast are Orson Welles, Bob Hope, Richard Pryor and Dom DeLuise. But to the Muppets' 235 million worldwide fans, the real heros of all this silliness are sensitive Kermit the Frog; his friend Fozzie, the stumbling bear; Miss Piggy, the porcine blonde caught achingly between show-biz ambition and true love; and a star-struck turkey, Gonzo the Great...
...gaga over the lavish stagecraft of Evita. The Webber-Rice score, an immediate hit in England when released as a double album in 1976, has failed to catch on in the States. Still, all is not necessarily lost. If Stigwood can only find a way to package the show that is playing outside the Prince Edward Theater instead of the one onstage, he might yet have a hit here. -Frank Rich