Word: belle
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...scantily dressed stage. A few dexterous actors. And, offstage, a hotel-desk bell. In David Ives' fertile world, these are the only requirements for theater that aerobicizes the brain and tickles the heart...
Sure Thing, the opening playlet, is 40 cunning variations on meeting cute. A young man approaches a young woman seated at a restaurant table. Every time he or she says something clumsy or frosty a bell rings (ding!), the actors freeze and the process ratchets back a step. Movie-wise playgoers with a sense of deja vu will wonder if this isn't Groundhog Day all over again. Well, worry not about Ives' originality or his consistency. Sure Thing was first seen in 1988, five years before the Bill Murray comedy. Further, all six of the Timing pieces are ingenious...
...TERREL BELL, Secretary of Education under Reagan. How he heard: Call from chief of staff James Baker to his car phone while on his way to speech. What he did: Watched at home with his wife. How it felt: "I was disappointed It was the first time the Reagan Cabinet was appearing publicly. And ((Baker said)) we'll pass this around, but he never...
...friendly deal. Soon after that agreement, Diller launched a $9.5 billion hostile takeover. In the bidding skirmishes that followed, both sides raised the stakes with the help of investment partners. QVC received backing from cable companies Comcast Corp. and Liberty Media as well as from the giant telephone operator Bell South. Meanwhile, Viacom signed up Blockbuster and later NYNEX Corp., the New York-based Baby Bell. Diller won a major legal victory in December when a Delaware court forced Paramount's Davis to dismantle his antitakeover defenses. Since that time Davis has become, to his chagrin, largely a bystander while...
...Communications announced a $2 billion plan to connect corporate customers in 20 of the nation's biggest cities to its long-distance network directly -- bypassing the local Bell telephone companies and avoiding the access charges, now totaling $5 billion a year, that MCI pays them for their linkup. The move intensified calls in Washington for reduced regulation of the telecommunications industry...