Word: bug
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...family of performing professionals. I was as close to the entertainment industry as my section of the Corliss clan got, And as a critic, of course, I?m basically a paid member of the audience - a voyeur, not an exhibitionist; a destroyer, not a creator. Yet the showbiz bug keeps infiltrating successive generations, keeps bringing them to New York. Derek is here now, waiting tables and taking courses as he and a friend hone their improv comedy act. His father, after a full career in the airline business, is now the executive director of a Denver-area symphony orchestra...
Others just didn’t know about the bug...
...philanthropy bug continues to spread. In Regensburg, Johann Vielberth, a real estate developer, set up a foundation earlier this year to finance a new institute of real estate studies with four professorships at the university. Next year he will put up a new building to house it. Vielberth, 72, says that although his family has backed local causes for 150 years, he is formalizing that tradition and taking the generosity to a new level: the donation to the university exceeds $10 million. "It's time for a culture of philanthropy to begin again," he says. Given Europe's growing funding...
...Sweet Adeline," which had been performed outdoors, was festooned with mosquito carcasses. As Judith Daykin, who brought the series to City Center, told TIME's Elaine Rivera for an Encores! story we did in 1998: "The musicians didn't know if it was a note or a dead bug...
...caught over the summer of 1982 the venture capital leverage buyout bug,” he says. “I was just smitten with this notion of buying companies versus being an investment banker...