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With an aggressive effort to tap into thewealth of alumni, Sexton has been able to initiateseveral attractive projects: $5 million for theGlobal Law program, another $5 million toestablish the Center on Innovation in a GlobalEconomy and $100 million to start a tuition poolthat would make an NYU legal education completelyfree...
...Baxter, the "Imagineer" who oversees Disneyland design, seems to be getting at when he discusses Tomorrowland's overhaul. Baxter talks at length of the need for the park to make "an emotional connect" with visitors, to draw on prevailing cultural myths. "Dreams about the future were very easy to tap into in the '50s," he says. "There were so many challenges left unrealized because of the Depression and World War II--there was a lot left to dream about." The promise of the future then was one of hope, of a technological utopia. But the sometimes bad, mostly prosaic...
...many ever got away. He made it seem as if they came easy, but he had to fight to have it look that way. When he was still active, he vocalized every day. Singing with the Dorsey band in the early '40s, he kept on tap a voice teacher who was a former opera singer. Later on he would turn to Metropolitan Opera soprano Dorothy Kirsten and baritone Robert Merrill for pointers on technique. "He knew they knew...how to maintain the equipment," Sinatra's longtime conductor, Vincent Falcone, told writer Will Friedwald. That stuff in the whiskey tumbler...
...paid more than you?" Eventually, he loses "the beat," and has to conform to what everyone wants him to be. But hope is still in sight, in the form of Grant showing off his breathtakingly intricate steps in "Green, Chaney, Buster, Slyde," a tribute to the masters of tap...
...taxis that refuse to give them rides at the end of "Taxi" win laugher and cheers from the audience, but at a cost of crassness. Also, in the very last number--a reprise of the opening song "Bring In 'Da Noise, Bring In 'Da Funk"--the cast stops tap-dancing at moments to clumsily imitate ballet as Silcott reads from a book in a faux British accent. The actions were mildly humorous, but seemed out-of-place--for a production that was supposed to be explaining the history of one art, ending by making fun of another one seemed shallow...