In "Promises, Promises" the dances by the director-choreographer Rob Ashford are skillful but generic.
In "Promises, Promises" (column, Feb. 16), Bob Herbert discusses unemployment and the international outsourcing of jobs, problems that he says "go to the very heart of the American way of life".
In "Promises, Promises," an adaptation of the screenplay of "The Apartment," by Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond, Simon buffs up the dominant character of his sixties comedies: the trapped bourgeois soul who finds that almost everything he yearns for is worthless.
Unlike an act utilitarian society, promising and trusting in promises makes sense in a rule utilitarian society, because promisees can rest assured that promisors won't do the local utility calculation to determine whether or not to keep their promises, but rather will obey the rule of promising.
If this were the case people would put no stock in promises, knowing that when the time came to keep the promise, the promiser would simply apply the utilitarian calculus, without regard to the fact that he had previously 'promised', as this is what being an act utilitarian means.
Haiti is awash in promises.
As Indians we are overinvested in promises and underinvested in performance.
Sean Hayes, above, will need to find a new drunken dance partner in "Promises, Promises".
In 1968 Bennett's choreography gave McKechnie her first Broadway showstopper, in "Promises, Promises".
"Frankly speaking, we have enough in promises, and we're grateful," he said.
