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...Osgood leaves his apartment on Manhattan's West Side at 4 a.m., scours the papers and incoming stories at his CBS office for material that he can use that morning. When he shakes loose to do one of his rare TV pieces, it is in the same whimsical vein. Recently he went to Lansdale, Pa., to find out why pupils in one class had been told to collect 1,000,000 bottle caps. The idea, it turned out, was to give the children some tangible feel for huge numbers. Osgood's interviews with the kids showed that they...
...energy shortage is unearthing a vein of community-enforced morality that many Americans thought ran out with stockades and witch burning. Motorists on some Connecticut and Wisconsin highways have begun honking angrily at drivers who exceed the new lower speed limits. On Interstate 75 near Atlanta last week, one car displayed a sign on its left-side door for every car passing him to see: "You too, 50 m.p.h." Jim Hunt, a filling-station operator in suburban Atlanta, has developed his own righteous way of rationing. He gives drivers of sub-compact cars all the gasoline they want, but limits...
These sweaters, T shirts, tank tops and long-sleeved shirts do everything but give off sparks. They are festooned with rhinestones, sequins, silver threads, gold sparkle dust and paint. There are abstract designs in the Art Deco vein. Another line stresses the representational (Bette Midler's face in sequins, flowers and animals in sparkle dust). A "words and numbers" series allows the wearer to advertise her home town ("Palm Springs: P.S. I love you") or favorite athlete's numeral. For the most part, the tops are priced for the jeans wearer's budget (usually between...
...chordal sections, to name a very few. From the first bassoon solo in The Merchant, the sound is lively and attractive. Sometimes the geography can be confusing (a Viennese waltz set in Venice is hard to fathom), but the spirit is blithe. Sullivan was clearly best in a light vein; and it is easy to see why his operettas--all "light" in character and often composed in three or four weeks' time--surpassed his more labored creations...
...brisk playfulness of Brian Murray's direction somewhat masks the vein of melancholy that runs through Anouilh's best characters. Their gaiety is inverted mourning. They suffer with a quip on their lips while stretched on a rack that is the distance between the way things are and the way they want them to be. "T.E.Kalem