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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...ghostly interpretation Sellon brings to his part, mostly mime except for his songs, helps tie the carefree world of the cabaret to the despairing lives of the characters. the frenetic chase of pleasure, which first draws people to the cabaret, slowly creeps into their lives outside it. The middle-aged widow, Fraulein Schneider (Holly Sargent), calls off her engagement to the Jewish Schultz (Joshua Milton) because of her terror of the Nazis. Sargent's singing starts off a little shakily, but she recovers quickly. The only changes that creep into the life of Fraulein Kost, deftly portrayed by Holley Stewart...
This dialogue between Laura and her charge might not seem unusual, except for one thing: the pupil was not a human child but a young chimpanzee named Nim. Like several others of his primate kin, Nim had been taught to communicate with humans in American Sign Language, a system of hand gestures developed for the deaf.* He eventually learned to make and recognize 125 signs. But the frisky little chimp and other apes who have received such "language" instruction are now the center of a raging academic storm. The issue: can apes really master the essence of human language...
Despite the new frugal spirit on Capitol Hill, Congress may still blink when it comes to actual budget reductions. Senators and Congressmen have long records of willingness to cut every program -except ones that affect them or their districts. The result is lots of spending and few cuts. But if inflation is ever to be controlled, Congress must be willing to reduce even its sacred pork-barrel programs...
...fleet brought back, the most celebrated work of art was a group of four antique gilt-bronze horses that Dandolo gave to his republic. They were hoisted, as supreme emblems of conquest, onto pedestals above the entrance to the San Marco Basilica. There they remained for some 750 years, except for a period when they were stolen by Napoleon, and when they were taken down for safekeeping during the two World Wars. Today the horses of San Marco remain the most famous bronzes to survive from the ancient world. But fame does not immunize bronze against pollution...
...razzmatazz, The First Tycoon of Teen). The vaulting arrangements and majestic delirium of songs such as Be My Baby and He's a Rebel and River Deep-Mountain High and You 've Lost That Lovin' Feeling have been endlessly imitated. They have never been equaled, except by Spector himself. Outside attempts to duplicate "the Spector wall of sound" only ring hollow, like a Salvation Army rock band playing in a subway tunnel. What is clear, past all the self-perpetuating mythology, is that Phil Spector has been responsible for some of rock's greatest records...