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Word of the Hunts' action came as a welcome surprise to Wall Street. Said Paul Sarnoff, an analyst at Paine Webber Mitchell Hutchins: "I didn't think they would ever sell all that silver." Investors were happy to see that the Hunts have largely left the silver scene. The price of the commodity jumped more than 5% after the sell-off became known and closed the week at $6.32 an ounce...
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...Lloyd Webber's Song & Dance, which opened on Broadway last week, the structure as usual looks ambitious but the execution is sweet and simple. The opening half is a solo song cycle about a young Englishwoman (Bernadette Peters) who comes to the U.S. to pursue romance, glamour and a hard-nosed career as a hat designer. At first she is abused by men who exploit her, or treat her as another expensive toy, or shy away from commitment. Then she treats a man that way, condemns herself for it and vows to recapture her lost innocence...
...second half is an almost entirely wordless dance ensemble piece set to Lloyd Webber's Variations, based on Paganini's A minor Caprice. One of the unseen characters in the first half, the young woman's nearest approximation to a true love (Christopher d'Amboise), prowls his way through the fleshly entertainments of Manhattan, only to decide he is ready to settle down, whereupon the young woman reappears to accept his offer. Like the woman, the young man is an outsider: as his trademark red jacket proclaims, he is from Nebraska. Like her, he is dazzled by bright lights...
...puppyish appeal that Peters has already attributed to him in her songs, and has a charming exchange with a chance acquaintance (Gregg Burge) who dazzlingly teaches him to tap. Together the enamored pair brings off the quirkiest of love stories: in the latest and not the least of Lloyd Webber's tricks, Peters and D'Amboise are not even seen together until just before the final, exuberant...