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...maladies illuminated on post-'70s talk shows. No wonder Company's director, Scott Ellis, so often has Gaines peering handsomely but dazedly into the spotlights. What's to become of him? He blinks with uncertainty--unlike his creator. After Company, Sondheim would move on to the even finer musicals--Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods--on which his reputation more securely rests...
...escorts took off the next morning at 3:47 and headed for Kokura, a city that contained a major weapons arsenal, on the north coast of the island of Kyushu. Finding the target obscured by clouds and facing a fuel shortage on the strike plane, Major Charles W. Sweeney decided to fly over the alternate target on his way to an emergency landing on Okinawa...
...Nobody in the labor movement is in the mood to sleep through this. They want a generational shift." The battle parallels the recent upheaval in the Teamsters union, in which one-time radicals rolled over an outgoing leader's hand-picked candidate. Kirkland's possible successor may be John Sweeney, president of the Service Employees International Union...
...sometimes constraining format of musical theater. Those depths are plumbed here. Each track on Color and Light features one or more jazz musicians performing a Sondheim show tune. Singer Peabo Bryson and saxophonist Joshua Redman join forces on a version of Sondheim's Pretty Women (from the musical Sweeney Todd) that is mature and mysterious, dark and sweet. Grover Washington Jr., with charismatic sax runs, turns the understated melody of Every Day a Little Death (from A Little Night Music) into something direct and forceful. And Bryson and vocalist Nancy Wilson transform Loving You (from Passion) into a soul-bearing...
Dodgers fans Jimmy Sweeney and Stuart Rawitt have gone online to organize a baseball boycott. Their for-profit organization -- Baseball Fans On Strike -- just established anInternet sitefor ordering a $20 membership kit, T-shirts, and baseball caps with the organization's logo. Members who pledge to boycott all 1995 major league baseball games get a newsletter, a travel gift certificate and a bumper sticker. Sweeney told TIME Daily that the boycott is for the entire season, even if thestrikeends, because he is angry that it has lasted so long. "We're boycotting regardless of who is playing," Sweeney said...