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Franklin Spinney was talking about history, not about our current situation. The day before Spinney made his presentation, the Army Chief of Staff testified that cost overruns have been cut to one-tenth of 1%. In addition, Spinney overlooked the savings that were made in last year's budget by the Armed Services Committee. He ignored the fact that the real cost increases last year and in the years to come were caused by the combined actions of the Budget Committee and the Appropriations Committee, neither of which is known for expertise in arms...
...wise, how to make butter or how to raise chickens or when it is the right time in the moon to plant onion sets or something else equally important. . . if someone would invent a contraption to shut out the other nine when a person wanted to use the tenth he would be richer and more famous than Edison. But he'd be forever unpopular with us farmers for we'd never know each other's business...
...estimated $750 billion that U.S. taxpayers are supposed to account for by April 15, the IRS figures, about $100 billion will not be paid. (Of the $650 billion collected, more than half will come from individual income-tax payers, a quarter from employers, and a tenth from corporations.) That "tax gap," the grand total created by Americans who are lying, bilking and inadvertently erring, has risen from $29 billion a decade ago (an increase of 53%, adjusting for inflation), and is expected to hit $120 billion by 1985. Yet the odds on being audited keep dropping, from...
...considered flimsy. Junior Dolan, the son of two vaudeville dancers, leaves the act, goes to school, and eventually becomes a music professor. As the story gets under way, he tries to persuade a famous Russian ballet company to perform a modern dance by one of his students, Slaughter on Tenth Avenue. The inevitable complications ensue. The prima ballerina (Natalia Makarova) makes advances. Poor Frankie Frayne, Junior's true love, despairs. The ballet's impresario discovers the professor's terrible secret-that he lives to dance-and talks him into starring in the climactic number himself...
There are a few disappointments. Lara Teeter, who plays Junior Dolan, sings and dances well enough, but he does not have the personality to carry such a large and important part. Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, the main number, looks oddly scratchy, and Balanchine's hand is clearly missing. Such faults, however, are far from catastrophic and, given the show's assets, weigh less than they otherwise might. On Your Toes is no longer a pioneer, but it offers something rarely encountered on Broadway these days: guaranteed enjoyment. -By Gerald Clarke