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...gifts as an entrepreneur are formidable. "Andrew is a brilliant natural exploiter of his own shows," says Mackintosh, who co-produced Cats, Song & Dance and Phantom. "It runs parallel with his creative talent. He understands showmanship: knowing how to launch a song, finding the right artist to promote it, doing the right programs and interviews. All of these things he does with consummate skill." Probably only Lloyd Webber could have written his Requiem as a memorial to his father and then turned the Pie Jesu into a hit song (sung by Brightman and a boy soprano) that climbed...
...late December the dollar went into a nose dive. Unbeknown to most traders, though, the central bankers were quietly baiting a so-called bear trap, in which they aimed to punish speculators who had been reaping profits by consistently betting on the dollar's downfall. They secretly agreed to launch a dollar-buying binge when the currency hit a floor price, possibly at 120 yen. At first only the Bank of Japan came to the rescue. Then all at once last Monday, moneymen from central banks around the world -- including the Federal Reserve -- got on the phones to place...
...shoots glassy stares at the Midi countryside as easily as close-ups of Ugolin's unshaven cheek or Papet at the table. Unfortunately, Manon appears to be just another landscape. Beart is an extraordinary beauty. She has long blond hair and baby-blue eyes and a face that could launch a thousand ships. But she has almost no lines in the entire two hours of the film...
LISTENING POSTS. Whenever the Soviets launch test missiles, ground controllers monitor and direct the flight by sending and receiving signals in the form of radio waves and microwaves. Those signals can be picked up by a variety of listening posts, including low-flying "ferret" satellites, ships loaded with antennas and a network of ground stations in countries that are close to the Soviet Union, such as Norway and China. By monitoring radio frequencies and telephone calls carried on microwaves, the listening posts can also eavesdrop on a broad range of Soviet military communications. Information can be gleaned, for example...
...absence -- raises more verification obstacles. The U.S. has begun preparing a new generation of satellites whose sensors will be aimed not at the earth but at the vast expanse beyond its atmosphere. One of the first due off the drawing board is an experimental bird called Starscan, scheduled for launch in 1991. It will approach orbiting objects and test for the radiation given off by nuclear devices. But the new satellites will have a harder time establishing the presence of space-based lasers and particle-beam weapons like those proposed as part of President Reagan's Star Wars missile defense...