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...example of the cat boom in the U.S., which now goes well beyond book and comic pages. There is, for example, Cats, an opulent, energetic rock musical adapted from T.S. Eliot's volume of poems Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. The production has been a smash hit in London for nine months and will stalk onto Broadway early next year. Signature lines of kitty sheets, towels, ceramic cat planters, calendars, mugs, watches, umbrellas, T shirts, sweatshirts, stationery and housewares move swiftly at gift stores and specialty shops like Purrfection in New York and the Cat House...
...much of the show's score sounds like an aside from Sondheim. Fragmented strains from Pacific Overtures, A Little Night Music, Company and Follies filter through the air like aural ghosts. One ballad, Not a Day Goes By, beautifully captures the bittersweet mystery of love, and the single smash number of the musical, Good Thing Going, has the stamp of permanence about it. Frank Sinatra, who has impeccable judgment in such matters, has already recorded it in his current album. The album goes for $8.95. Merrily We Roll Along, at Broadway's Alvin Theater, goes for $35. Take...
...time, Bernays carried out the first public relations event in 1913, when he helped the actor Richard Bennet produce the play "Damaged Goods," which dealt with sex education and the dangers of syphilis. By winning the support of several prominent New York socialites, Bernays turned the show into a smash hit on Broadway and generated a flood of social concern over the dangers of the disease...
...movie's thrust falls somewhere in the dangerous middle ground. Gilliam was Python's sordid animator in Time Bandits and often uses people as if they were cartoons. There are many violent scenes worthy of Tom and Jerry or Wile E. Coyote except with live subjects as characters smash into walls, eat rats, and explode. It's bad enough when Elmer Fudd blows up and survives unscathed, but the violence here is too up-front to be humorous and gets in the way of any moral...
...which we have no doubt he is a constant and careful reader. Whatever other people expect, we have no faith he will give the country anything like the administration of his immediate two predecessors...He can make a good business President--no man can do better. Or--he can smash the whole (Republican) party to pieces, and we are afraid he's going...