Word: swings
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...show stands or falls largely on the basis of its music. Leonard Bernstein's score is characterized by its eclecticism; complementing the melancholy strains of "Ohio" and the lyricism of "It's Love" are the Latin American rhythms of "Conga," the Irish jig "My Darlin' Eileen" and the jazzy "Swing." While Wonderful Town is no West Side Story, its finest tunes, like "Ohio" and It's Love," are definitely hummable...
Wonderful Town. An adaptation of the 1940s hit play My Sister Eileen about two sisters from Columbus, Ohio who invade New York City to seek their fortunes. The music's by Leonard Bernstein and includes songs like "Ohio," "Swing," "Quiet Girl" and "It's Love." A good bet for nostalgia buffs. At the Loeb, December 4-7 and 10-13, at 8 p.m. Tickets...
...commandos swing back into action, they presumably would go in on the side of the Democratic People's Republic of Angola (capital: Huambo), which was formed by a coalition of Hoiden Roberto's F.N.L.A. and Jonas Savimbi's UNITA. The F.N.L.A. has the open support of a peculiar combination: Zaire's President Mobutu Sese Seko, the U.S. (which funnels money through Zaire for weapons), Western business interests−and China. Savimbi's group, ,meanwhile, has been bankrolled by South Africans and wealthy white Angolans who fear their property will be confiscated by the country...
Shabby Scandals. "Ultimately, the election will be decided by the 10% of the voters, mostly of the middle class, who swing from party to party," reported TIME Correspondent John Dunn. "It is doubtful if the sympathy they today feel for Whitlam will last the month until they reach the ballot box. By then, they are more likely to be influenced by the problems of the economy and recollection of the shabby scandals. Thus Eraser's coalition may just retain the government that came its way so surprisingly this week...
...night, student overseers at all but one of the dances enforce a dress code. Swing and ball-room music dominates at a few affairs. At another semi-formal, students contort themselves to the latest discotheque tunes in a hall so dark that it would have been impossible to distinguish between tuxedos and clean football jerseys. Many at the semi-formal compare the atmosphere to that of the 1920s. "It's the same old song put to different music," one student complains. "Why couldn't I have been here six years ago when Yale and Harvard didn't mean...