Word: tunings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...public shares in Lloyd Webber's company, called Really Useful. Last year the firm had pre-tax profits of $3.1 million, and it owns the rights to everything Lloyd Webber has written since 1978. Stockholders will get a share of royalties each time an elevator plays a Muzak-treated tune from Cats. Profits from Jesus Christ Superstar, though, will not be included...
...strongest and must amusing numbers is "C'est Moi," the entrance tune of Sir Lancelot (Andrew Gardner), a self-proclaimed "French Prometheus unbound." Gardner deftly embodies a ridiculous paragon of self-confidence and self-righteousness. He has a handsome easy manner and he uses his mobile (and bushy) eyebrows to great comic effect. From France, Lancelot has travelled to join Arthur's new order, the Knights of the Round Table, a chilvalrous fraternity dedicated to Arthur's new Machiavellian philosophy that might should be the weapon of right. Arthur welcomes him readily while the rest of the court initially...
...Tonight's meet served its purpose of being a tune-up for the stiffer competition we have ahead of us," said Wilson...
...That Jazz" class at Peabody School, Cabot House resident Gigi M. Dopico '86 helps the dance instructor control a dozen three-to 13-year-olds on a particularly rowdy Friday afternoon. While the teacher shows the kids how to "roll-slap-clap-slap-roll" to the tune of Michael Jackson's "Thriller," Dopico is busy one minute consoling a girl with a sore throat who can't dance, but who can run all around the auditorium, the next minute jumping around on stage, helping the smallest girl in the class remember when to clap and when to roll...
...book, in fact, is not overwhelmingly convincing, but it is in tune with the times, and may help restore some balance in its field. Wilson admits that the case for biological factors in crime was jettisoned in the early 1960s partly because of the shifting temper of the country. It may catch on again now because of a different national mood...