Word: acclaim
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London theater, like Broadway, has had less than a banner year. No new Amadeus, The Real Thing, Cats or Nicholas Nickleby, no groundbreaking experience, has emerged to take the West End and then America by acclaim. The difference is that when Broadway falters, production slows to a trickle and half the theaters are dark. In London there is always plenty to see, including, at the moment, as many American musicals as on Broadway, at roughly a third of Broadway prices. Shows open and close more quickly in London than in New York City, where financial success usually depends...
DIED. Heinrich Böll, 67, Nobel-prize-winning (1972) West German author whose gentle but relentless attacks on tyranny of all kinds informed the short stories, essays and 18 novels that brought him acclaim and popularity in the East bloc as well as the West and provided unfailing moral guideposts for his countrymen; of complications of arteriosclerosis; in Hürtgenwald, West Germany. Brought up in a deeply religious Roman Catholic family resistant to Nazism, he served six years as a Wehrmacht conscript on both fronts. He emerged as a pacifist and foe of all establishments, governmental, religious and bureaucratic...
...younger, hipper crowds to the museum. Concert Coordinator Dan Hirsch, the man behind the plan, has selected a number of new, exciting musicians he hopes will continue to draw in young music fans. Antony and the Johnsons and favorite folk-poppers Ida both played sets in February to wide acclaim...
...just like the Iditarod—minus the dogs, the subzero temperatures, and the international acclaim...
...speaks with the respect and deference of an ordinary freshman despite her international acclaim and statistical exploits, crediting her teammates and coach for her growing success...