Word: tunefully
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...performing but by succeeding. Success can't be separated from impact anymore. Marketing and merchandising are integral parts of the pop machine, just as a movie's box-office receipts become part of its cachet. Show business is the latest American spectator sport, and the number of weeks a tune stays at No. 1 is as critical as a batting average for anyone who wants to stay in the game...
...tune that Ol' Blue Eyes immortalized could have served equally well as the theme song for the annual economic summit of the world's richest democracies held in Houston last week. Just as the Soviet Union's power to ride herd on its neighbors has been crippled by its domestic turmoil, America's ability to corral its allies has been hampered by two factors: the burgeoning economic clout of Japan and West Germany and the belief that the communist threat to Western security has receded. Today the U.S., Japan, West Germany, France, Britain, Canada and Italy -- known in diplomatese...
While Broadway producers are humming to the tune of profitable musicals like City of Angels, the plight of drama is downbeat. Theaters that once launched plays by Arthur Miller and Clifford Odets have become hostile territory for non-musical works. With tickets hitting $60, theatergoers typically prefer the full song-and-dance for their money. To rebuild drama's audience, a coalition of producers, unions, theater owners and suppliers has created the Broadway Alliance, a unique agreement that will cut ticket costs by as much...
...black and brutal exploration of one woman's sexual and psychological "underside." The Harvard-Radcliffe Summer Theater's production of the work is not good theater in its easiest definition--no one in the audience will leave with a renewed joi de vie, or humming a catchy show tune. But it is undeniably powerful...
...lines at the microphone, her delivery is well targeted. Bina Martin clomps convincingly through her role as tragi-comic Sally. Her porcelain face betrays just the right amount of suffering. The women do well in the go-go dances, as they bump and grind chairs on stage to the tune of some mean music; their opportunities to do so are unfortunately limited...