Word: successful
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...Kern films from Show Boat to Swing Time. This week marks the premiere of an off- & Broadway revue, Ladies and Gentlemen . . . Jerome Kern, which spans the composer's career from the turn of the century to his death in 1945. In Britain, where the composer met his first stage success (and his only wife), three more revues are wending their way toward the West End. In the past two years, half a dozen new Kern LPs have been released; recent interpreters of his songs include Joanne Woodward, Kiri Te Kanawa and, mewling All the Things You Are, Michael Jackson. Most...
Unlike many Broadway composers of Kern's day who scrambled to success out of tenements on Manhattan's Lower East Side, he was born in a comfortable midtown apartment, the son of a German-Jewish stabler. Young Jerry would never be the businessman his father hoped for. Sent out to purchase two pianos, the lad returned with 200. But he must have known his future would have more to do with sitting at pianos than haggling over them. He spent his 17th birthday attending a community-theater premiere of his own musical, a parody of Uncle Tom's Cabin...
...very rich. Reagan would eliminate many of the tax breaks that wealthy persons in particular use to shelter their income. At the same time, he would preserve three deductions that are immensely popular with the middle class and thus vital to the reform plan's chances of success: those for interest paid on primary home mortgages, for gifts to charity and for medical expenses...
...smile when you say cliche. McMurtry is a storyteller who works hard to satisfy his audience's yearning for the familiar. What, after all, are legends made of? The secret of his success is embellishment, the odd detail or colorful phrase that keeps the tale from slipping into a rut. During a thunderstorm, a cowboy is amazed to see little blue balls of electricity rolling on the horns of cattle. "You stayed gone a while" is poetry compared with "Long time...
...consider myself a very good lecturer," concludes Cox, adding, "I love the performance element. Pacing, timing, voice intonation, and a lot of eye contact" are the key to his success, he adds...