Word: stagings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...least, Soviet muscle flexing has produced more defiance than fear among NATO'S two members in Scandinavia. As confidence in détente has waned, support for increased defense expenditures has risen. "People have seen the Soviets and their friends smile on the public stage, while relentlessly pushing ahead militarily," says a Danish Foreign Ministry official. "They can see some of it themselves by just riding down to the coast on their bikes." One result is that the often criticized and sometimes creaking NATO alliance rarely has been more appreciated among Norwegians and Danes than it is today...
...such as taxation, is not clear. Vorster professes to be skeptical of all such schemes. With characteristic bluntness he says: "Any alternative to the Westminster model is for whites, not for blacks. You either have the vote or you don't have it. There is no in-between stage...
...places, the suppression of legitimate, moderate opposition leads to radicalization. Marxism in the black African countries, plus obvious Soviet attempts at penetration, is a very legitimate worry for South Africa-and the U.S. Some sort of socialist, one-party government is inevitable for many black African countries at this stage, but that does not mean Soviet control or even influence. Far from it. As Moscow has discovered, Africa's mercurial nations make difficult ground for political colonization. They are fiercely divided among themselves. The one thing that unites them is opposition to the racist regimes of southern Africa...
...Manhattan, Studio 54, once the baroque Fortune Gallo Opera House and later a CBS studio, has been transformed into a dancer's Disneyland (membership $125 a year). The vast (5,000 sq. ft.) shuffle area is a stage, with theatrical lighting, scrims and backdrops rising as high as 85 ft. A dozen pencil-thin poles of red and yellow light blink, twirl, rise and fall amid the dancers; revolving silver prisms above the dance floor reflect flashing strobes. In all, there are 450 different special effects, including snowfalls (plastic) and a giant half-moon with glowing nose and spoon...
...back "environment." There are also The Foxhunt and The Casbah. For the older, squarer set, there is Burl's Joint, the focal point of a new restaurant opened in May by Burt Reynolds. Inside the huge Omni Hotel complex, Burt's is designed like a Hollywood sound stage, with sets from Show Boat, the trolley from A Streetcar Named Desire and endless blowups of the owner's favorite actor. The sound is radio-oriented, with Sinatra's All the Way and the theme from Rocky alternating with hard rock. Clientele: unchic...