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Stephanie Bates leans into the dressing-room mirror and delicately re- adjusts a false eyelash that perspiration has set askew. The women behind her scramble for their costumes, throwing off tap shoes, pulling on tights. The mood is frantic, but full dress rehearsals are like that. No one is quite comfortable with the routine...
...culmination of his efforts is a power-packed 90-minute musical revue that will run for five weeks starting Feb. 7. It boasts snappy show tunes, precision tap lines, and leggy ladies in dazzling costumes dripping with sequins and feathers. All this is sandwiched between an opening carnival act that nightly crowns the king and queen of Mardi Gras, and a red, white and blue finale guaranteed to strain the tear ducts of even the most hard-nosed patriots. Though the cast consists entirely of active-duty and retired military personnel and dependents, it turns in a performance that rivals...
Talvy's dedication to dancing goes way back. She has taken ballet, tap and jazz since junior high school. But it was the encouragement of the kids in her CityStep class last year that motivated her to audition for Club MTV, she says. In September, she won a spot on the snow. Since then, she has nown to New York almost once a month for two-day, 15-segment taping sessions. Harper joined the show two years ago, on a dare...
...closer to power. Ronald Reagan did not represent the apotheosis of Hollywood in Washington, but the reverse: he was spurned by the film community and accepted by voters precisely because he seemed so un-Hollywood. Washington has yet to harness Hollywood for its ability to create modern myths and tap into the national zeitgeist. When that happens, the connection between the two cities will be more real than celluloid...
...price plunge was aggravated last week because industrial countries, mistakenly anticipating an outbreak of panic buying as war began, gave the go- ahead to tap their emergency petroleum supplies. President Bush authorized the month-long sale of 1.1 million bbl. a day from the 585 million-bbl. Strategic Petroleum Reserve, which is stored in salt domes along the Texas and Louisiana coasts. The drawdown will provide some 6% of the U.S.'s daily consumption of 17 million...