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Montgomery Ward has remodeled its spacious outlet in Skokie, Ill., installing new surveillance posts that blend into the décor. Observation towers are disguised as structural supports; protruding mirrors along a wall conceal guards who scan the throngs of shoppers crowding the aisles. Retailers around the country are taking similar security measures. Reason: business is booming in the weeks before Christmas, but so is shoplifting...
...personal insight. Karajan accepts the boundary lines and then plays the game for all he is worth. His Eroica, for example, is a shade faster than before, his Fourth broader, darker, more ruminative. But what really sets this album, apart-from its ancestors and competitors alike-is its distinctive blend of youthful pizazz and seasoned know...
...ultimately Bromberg's personality and showmanship that pull it through and make it work so well. Yes, the arrangements are almost flawlessly tight, and yes, the soloing and general musicianship is superb throughout the album. But that's not it. Bromberg brings to his music a rare blend of talent, technique and energy that makes him a highly charismatic entertainer. And that's what Reckless Abandon is really all about: good entertainment...
...primate (the order of mammals that includes humans, apes and monkeys) who had lived on the threshold of humanity. Still, he recognized that the creature was even more primitive than Java man. He named it Australopithecus africanus, or the southern ape of Africa. The skull displayed an odd blend of ape and human characteristics. Dart's creature clearly had a large, apelike face, but its teeth were proportioned like those of a modern man. Its brain, although far smaller than that of a human child, had nonetheless been larger than an ape's. Perhaps
...stage was more sharply defined. The stage runs the entire length of the Kirkland JCR, and because the technical devise of having characters who are not immediately involved in the action freeze at the rear or sides of the current scene is used throughout, the stage seems to blend into the audience and the musicians, and it is difficult to maintain focus on the action. Eric Cornwell's and Acha Lord's subdued lighting is effective, although the soft edges and lack of highlights tend to compound the focus problem...