Word: baron
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...panelist Charles Baron, who heads the CivilLiberties Union of Massachusetts, said that theWisconsin code is unconstitutional because thedisciplinary action taken hinges on the content ofthe derogatory comment...
...Baron said that the First Amendment wasdesigned to prohibit any sort ofgovernment--including a universityadministration--from restricting what people cansay...
...Warner Communications last July, the merged company agreed last week to shed a subsidiary that had turned out to be a disappointing performer. Time Warner said it will sell its Illinois-based textbook publishing unit, Scott, Foresman, for $455 million to Harper & Row Publishers, which is owned by media baron Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. When it bought Scott, Foresman in 1986, Time paid $520 million and assumed $50 million in debt. Time Warner's losses on the Scott, Foresman investment will total $175 million, which will be written off in the fourth quarter...
Grand Hotel is set in the poshest spot in Berlin in 1928, the very year that Threepenny premiered. In this rarefied place, even victims are privileged: a bankrupt baron (David Carroll), an embattled industrialist (Timothy Jerome), a ballerina in decline (Liliane Montevecchi) and her dogsbody, a closet lesbian (Karen Akers). A dying accountant, played by Michael Jeter with a dazzling mix of febrile weakness and life-grabbing gusto, has enough money to live out his waning days in luxury, while a typist (Jane Krakowski) who moves from man to man always has her looks to fall back...
...libretto depends too heavily on whether the industrialist will turn crooked to save his neck (anyone can see he will) and on a love match between the baron and the ballerina that ends almost before it has begun. Director- choreographer Tommy Tune provides a pretentious last-minutes ballet between characters introduced as love and death. Despite these shortcomings, Grand Hotel is the musical winner of the season, bringing to mind, if not quite matching, the kinetic narratives of Harold Prince, Bob Fosse and Michael Bennett in their heyday. Tune takes a set more cluttered than Threepenny's -- fluted columns...