Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...carve out a niche and survive? Sure. But what are the odds it will really flourish? And at the proposed IPO price of $16 a share, or 21 times earnings, it isn't even cheap. But then, who's asking? In this roaring market, few indeed. Next up: the Brooklyn Bridge...
...large, overlapping presence. Loewen says nine states, including Florida, have notified the company that they plan their own antitrust reviews. And Loewen itself has filed a defensive federal lawsuit against SCI, arguing that the merger would sharply reduce competition in dozens of cities and towns from Anchorage to Brooklyn, New York. Even SCI has announced that a successful combination would doubtless require the divestiture of some properties...
...contrast, Les Enfants Terribles (subtitled Children of the Game)--which premiered last spring at the Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, South Carolina, and was staged last month at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City--uses the medium of dance to make its point. Cocteau's 1929 novel, which he transformed into a 1950 movie, was a typically neurasthenic tale of the unhealthy relationship of Paul and Lise, siblings whose excessive attachment to each other eventually destroys them. At once precious and oblique, the story could easily seem ridiculous today...
...beloved toy still rests under the tree and its magically growing branches. The Nutcracker has long been the mainstay of dance companies and dancing schools alike; now the Brooklyn Academy of Music has come up with a fresh take on the classic: Donald Byrd's The Harlem Nutcracker, which tells the story of a grandmother who relives her youthful romance in the great Harlem nightclubs--all to Duke Ellington's jazz-and-gospel-tinged arrangement of Tchaikovsky...
MOST EMBARRASSING HISTORICAL GAFFE--DOLE: "The Brooklyn Dodgers had a no-hitter last night." The Dodgers left Brooklyn...