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Nuclear energy is being released at Broadway's Lunt-Fontanne Theater, but no one need fear anything more drastic than delight. Sophisticated Ladies has no book and seems not to need one. It relies on incendiary dancing, notably tap, an onstage Big Band blast under the baton of Duke Ellington's son Mercer, and some 36 of the Duke's tunes of seductive genius...
...Therefore, we urge targeted efforts to ensure the more productive use of capital, labor and technology. Tax incentives should be offered to business that invest in productive plant and equipment. Federal funding for civilian research and development must be expanded, not cut, as the Republicans propose. Finally, we must tap the unused resource of millions of able-bodied Americans who cannot find work. Government and industry must work together to provide training, not for "make-work" jobs, but for real, longterm employment...
Another expanding computer service field is data banks that provide information for personal computers. After an initial hookup fee of $100, for example, a home computer can be connected through telephone lines to a machine in Alexandria, Va., that houses an immense information service called The Source. Customers can tap into 2,000 sources of data, ranging from a nationwide listing of job openings and up-to-the-minute financial news to world airline schedules and the entire catalogue for the wine library of Les Amis du Vin. During evening hours and weekends, the cost of bringing this information into...
...moment, McKellen, who is unmarried, lives quietly in a sublet on the northern lip of Greenwich Village, from which he has recently ventured forth to start tap dancing lessons. He has nearly exhausted the usual tourist circuit but remains an enthusiastic-and perhaps impressionable-student of American folkways. "I heard a newscaster on TV and thought he sounded very affected," McKellen reports. "Then I realized he was English." He will return to England after his Amadeus engagement to take possession of his new London house on the Thames and to hang his collection of paintings (he favors modern industrial scenes...
...kick-line. About halfway through the second act plot-lines begin to dissolve into a haze of anticipation; the audience gets restless waiting for the show's payoff. You forget about which actor played what part; they all don the same costumes, line up downstage, and dance. They kick, tap, waltz, jump, charleston--in Serfs Up! they even roll over and kick their feet in the air. This year's kick-line has excitement, surprises, and laughs, and even if the rest of the show--or the people next to you remarking "Excellent!" at every pun--have left you cold...