Word: sweeting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...females in the cast are less notable, partly because their roles are more two-dimensional. It's hard to score dramatic points, after all, with lines like, "You'll make it, Georgie, I know you will." McCaire Henderson as Agnes has a sweet voice, but she's far more persuasive as a stage-frightened girl from Worcester, Mass. than later on as Georgie's second wife. Kathy Evans also has a few good moments as Fay Templeton, an aging star who fumes sarcastically at back-handed compliments...
...today's all-volunteer Army, the fringe benefits can be very sweet-but apparently not sweet enough for some noncommissioned officers, who have added to their "bennies" by shaking down recruits. Such abuses are gradually being exposed at five of the eight Army bases that are home to basic trainees. Typically in such cases, a recruit was given a weekend pass, allowed to get away with some minor infraction, or awarded a passing grade on a test. In exchange, he had to pay cash to his drill instructor or some other noncom, or perform a service such as washing...
...more than Caldwell. Her success story is anything but logical or coherent. Her energy would be impressive for a basketball star; for a beach ball of a woman, it is phenomenal. Her friend Beverly Sills describes Sarah's voice as "Ezio Pinza imitating a woman," but she can sweet-talk almost anybody out of, and into, anything...
Caldwell can shriek at the chorus, growl at the stagehands, spit fire at a careless secondary singer, but usually will serve sweet honey to her soloists. She solicits their advice and often takes it. During rehearsals for Barber, Bass-Baritone Donald Gramm said that it might be fun if the glass in his hand broke as Sills hit a high C in the lesson scene. Caldwell loved the idea and put it in. "As both conductor "and director, I am very much aware that it is those people up there doing it onstage," she says. "I can help them...
...indictment charges AMREP Corp. of New York City with 70 counts of mail fraud and ten counts of violating the Interstate Land Sales Full Disclosure Act. Since 1961, it charges, AMREP (an amalgamation of the American Realty and Petroleum Corp. with the Great Sweet Grass Oils Co.) has managed to sell desert plots to about 45,000 people for a total of more than $200 million. AMREP's initial investment for the parched land was about $17.8 million. To hype the value of the property, the indictment charges, the company added some showcase improvements in a development called...