Word: brentons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Howard Brenton calls his play Bloody Poetry "the celebration of a magnificent failure." Based on the relationship between Romantic poets Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord George Byron, the play explores their frustrated attempt to live utopian lives. However, The Leland Center's production fails to convince the audience that their failure is worth celebrating...
...Friday, the Greek tanker World Prodigy struck a rock at Brenton Reef, just south of Newport, R.I., spewing about 600,000 gal. of fuel that immediately began drifting toward Newport Harbor. A few hours later, a tanker collided with an oil-filled barge near Houston, releasing 250,000 gal. of oil. Then, shortly before 5 a.m. Saturday, a tanker from Uruguay ran aground in the Delaware River just south of Claymont, Del., causing a discharge of up to 1.6 million gal. of industrial fuel...
Among active playwrights, perhaps the most prolific and far-ranging exemplar of the Theater of Ideas is Britain's David Hare, 38. His comedy Pravda, a broadside attack on the political inertia of Fleet Street, co-written with Howard Brenton, has become the hottest ticket in London. He wrote potent screenplays for two current films, Wetherby and Plenty, the latter an adaptation of his 1983 Broadway hit about postwar British decline as reflected in the tormented life of one politically involved woman. Now Hare's A Map of the World, being given its U.S. premiere at the off-Broadway Public...
...Brenton H. Rupple, another first year MBA student, said the joke was a tradition for "Section G" students at the school. Rupple said he gave Moyers the bomb in yesterday's class after Moyers used "some accounting phraseology" in class that "no one was familiar with. It was rather esoteric," said Rupple...
...with Sears, Merrill Lynch and the other money bazaars, they are pushing boldly into once forbidden fields, including insurance, stock brokerage and interstate banking. Congress has been slow in passing legislation that would control entry into these areas, so financiers have gone ahead on their own. Says C. Robert Brenton, former president of the American Bankers Association: "The Government has no vision for the evolution of the financial-services system in this country. We are quickly putting together a jerry-built financial structure, which includes flaws that work against the best interest of the public." Citicorp, for instance, plans...