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Lyrics by Fred Ebb; Book by Terrence McNally...
...show-biz ego-stark, aggressive, manipulative, wheedling, insatiable-has found no more assiduous celebrators than the songwriting team of John Kander and Fred Ebb. In Cabaret, Chicago, Woman of the Year and the movie New York, New York, they have composed dozens of brassy ballads for gutsy ladies staking out their parcel of asphalt turf. No raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens for these guys. Kander's tunes have the catchy dissonance of a Broadway traffic snarl just before show time; violins cower mutely in the pit while the percussion sets a tempo of edgy energy...
...This is part of a more systematic look at the problem than has been done in the past," said Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid I Fred Jewett '57. Jewett added that Harvard students writing skills have been declining over the past few years...
...unsafe sets have increased dramatically since the Twilight Zone accident. And stunt people - traditionally loath to turn down stunts for fear of losing a job, or face - are becoming more wary. "Ten years ago, we wouldn't have taken a second look before we did a stunt," says Fred Waugh, president of Stunts Unlimited. "Today we take a second or even a third." Many Hollywood officials hope the industry will step up its self-policing efforts, lest state and local governments start taking the closest look...
...controversy leading to the censorship order began last August. While calling for a new trial for a defendant, Denver U.S. District Judge Fred Winner accused three Justice Department tax attorneys of "repeated excesses" in the course of the investigation, including having "browbeaten and ridiculed" one grand jury witness and "threatened" another. Following standard practice, the judge's ruling was published in paperbound form and was set for a hardcover edition by West Publishing Co., the private concern that issues volumes of federal and state court opinions. But the Government lawyers charged that Winner's opinion contained "defamatory...