Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...measure comes amid quickening competition in the cable industry as firms battle harder than ever to expand their market share. Last week Home Box Office, a Time Inc. company that operates the largest pay movie network, said it will launch a 24-hour comedy channel this fall as its first basic cable service. Two days later, MTV Networks, a sister of Showtime, the second largest pay movie channel, announced plans for similar comedy programming early next year...
...York, which opened on Broadway last week, he wears a top hat and spectacles, carries a white cane and resembles an elongated Jiminy Cricket. All around him are people he might befriend, if only he could break through their obsessive isolation with entertainment machines -- a Walkman, a boom box, a video camera, a TV monitor. Irwin himself carries a remote control, purportedly hooked up to the tiers of curtains onstage and the sound system that sporadically blares Tea for Two while he attempts a soft-shoe...
Every few years the music stops and a handful of big-name box-office attractions make a grab for one another's chairs. It happened a few years ago when Previn left the Pittsburgh Symphony; Lorin Maazel quit the Vienna State Opera and landed in Pittsburgh; Riccardo Muti, 47, conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, added the directorship of La Scala in Milan to his resume; La Scala's former leader, Claudio Abbado, 55, headed for Vienna. About the only one who did not go anywhere then was the New York Metropolitan Opera's James Levine...
...some local functionaries had not got the message from the first round of votes. In one district of the Russian city of Pskov, the local electoral commission chose the regional party boss again as its uncontested candidate, despite the fact that he lost his first bid at the ballot box. The liberals could at least claim a triumph in the second round of elections at the Soviet Union's Academy of Sciences. After weeks of debate, academy members finally voted Nobel Peace laureate Andrei Sakharov one of their 20 seats in the congress. Independent deputies and supporters of such unofficial...
Disney-MGM is the costume jewel, the golden Mousketeer cap on the head of chairman Michael Eisner. Five years ago, Disney was an ailing movie midget coasting on revenue from its theme parks in Florida, Japan and Anaheim, Calif. Now it reigns as box-office champ. It also produces hit series like Golden Girls, boasts 9,000 rooms in its Florida hotels and plans to open Euro Disneyland outside Paris in 1992. And still Eisner eyes more robust expansion. Typhoon Lagoon, a 50-acre water theme park, premieres next month, followed shortly by a PG-rated night-life district called...