Word: bros
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shareholders but not Time Inc.'s. Without making much of a dent in the $11 billion debt incurred by the deal, Levin kept rolling the dice. He sold pieces of the new company into complex partnerships that raised billions but tied up Time Warner's best assets, including Warner Bros. studios and HBO. And instead of paying down the mortgage, Levin went out and bought a couple more cable-television companies, just as share prices in the industry were beginning to slump...
...customers online. Even the mighty home-video-game industry, which should get a much needed kick in the pants this week with the release of the hotly anticipated Nintendo 64 machine, has seen its sales figures slacken dramatically in recent years as its target audience graduated from Mario Bros. to modems and PCs. The Net, says Glenn Crocker, vice president of engineering at software developer Chaco Communications, "gives us a cheap way to connect a national audience...
...some very obvious ways, Jordan has told this story well (the film is keenly anticipated in Ireland, where it will enjoy a Jurassic Park-style wide release; the distributor, Warner Bros., is understandably more skittish about its reception in Britain). Jordan's reconstruction of revolutionary Dublin is visually impressive and historically persuasive. His take on Collins is, in its way, equally attractive, if somewhat less than fully dimensional. Collins is presented as revolutionary warriors generally are by their admirers: as a practical soldier, a man of rough humor, mostly inarticulate idealism and, perhaps, a certain unspoken regret about that "talent...
...also one of Harvard's own. Having graduated in 1987 with a degree in Russian and Soviet studies, Whiteside moved on to study theater improvisation and performed with troupes in Boston. According to Whiteside, however, the biggest achievement of his life came when he toured with the Ringling Bros., Barnum & Bailey Circus as a clown in "The Greatest Show on Earth." "Snappy Crayons" is Whiteside's first attempt at choreographing a dance/theater production...
...audience seems to respond easily to the pure fun of watching the antics of Whiteside and his cast, and is won over by both the relaxed nature of the performers and their physical skill and control. Hopefully the success of "Snappy Crayons" will inspire this alumnus of both Ringling Bros. and Harvard University to further dance/theater adventures...