Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reunion of performers of Ziegfeld-style spectacles. The original version won five Tony Awards but lost nearly all its then awesome $800,000 investment, and save for a 1985 Lincoln Center concert version, there has been no revival. The $3 million-plus London production opened to bigger advance sales than Cats, Les Miserables or the current hottest ticket, Phantom of the Opera, according to Cameron Mackintosh, who produced them all. If it thrives, he envisions raising $8 million to "help bring Follies back to Broadway, which created the traditions it celebrates" -- a rare reverse transfer that would be welcome...
...those excesses, however, paled beside PTL's underlying corporate style. PTL ran, says one former executive, on a "theology of building." Recounts Harry Hargrave, a Dallas businessman recruited by Falwell to run the shattered organization: "Jim would build something here, and then he'd have to build something bigger to finish paying for this as well as the enlarged cash flow." That pyramid philosophy led Bakker from his first Heritage Village television studio in Charlotte to Heritage USA and, finally, to the 500-room Heritage Grand Hotel and its sister, the unfinished Heritage Towers. Bakker's ultimate fantasy...
...heavyweight king! Long live the king!", six trumpeters dressed in Elizabethan tunics blared a fanfare, and Ali placed a crown, studded with what King described as "baubles, rubies and fabulous doodads," on Tyson's head. Muttered the clearly embarrassed sovereign: "Does this mean I'm going to get bigger purses?" A more urgent question for Tyson: When he faces his first challenger, Tyrell Biggs, on Oct. 16 in Atlantic City, who will crown whom...
...plane's sole-source contractor, Northrop Corp., has taken a $124 million tax write-off against profits on the plane, signifying concern with the soaring development costs. Last week the Air Force called in officials from the Rand, Northrop and Rockwell corporations to explore the possibilities of subcontracting bigger chunks of the project...
...selling points at which they will dump a stock to cut their losses or capture their gains. Says Melissa Lamb, 28, a Manhattan real-estate broker who is learning the hard way: "I have picked some good ones, but I just wait and wait in the hope of a bigger profit, until all the profit evaporates...