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Lloyd Webber's Starlight Express, a homage to trains, with lyrics by Richard Stilgoe, is (surprise!) the season's hottest ticket. It is also just about a total bust. For this multimedia combo of Rollerball and The Little Engine That Could, Designer John Napier has ramped and revamped the huge Apollo Victoria Theater, allowing the young cast room to roller-skate through three levels of the audience. But all the amplified sound and whirling energy cannot hide the show's vacuity. The story line is repetitive and inconsequential; Trevor Nunn's staging is an elephantine parody...
...world. But trouble returned as a result of the bank's go-go lending during the 1970s. Under former Chairman Roger Anderson, who was eased out last February, Continental lent freely for oil and gas drilling, condominium development and Latin American projects; many of the projects went bust. The biggest blow came in September 1982, when Oklahoma City's Penn Square Bank failed. Continental held more than $1 billion in Penn Square's bad energy loans. Continental last week released the results of a 5½-month-old internal probe that blamed the Penn Square involvement...
...morning he wakes up with a hangover and a new tattoo on his right arm; he discovers that the passenger seat in his Porsche is covered with blood. Then the acting police chief calls him in and suggests that Madden move his hidden cache of marijuana before state troopers bust him. When he attempts to comply...
...second Democratic theme is to present the party as one of hard, tough realism, willing to look beyond the glitter of temporary prosperity and demand the sacrifices necessary to head off a calamitous bust. Thus Mondale in his acceptance speech became perhaps the first candidate ever to run for President on a pledge to raise taxes. To lower the deficit, he said, "that must be done. Mr. Reagan will raise taxes, and so will I. He won't tell you. I just did." Mondale also vowed to cut federal spending, telling Congress, in words that sounded odd from...
...stop some place to eat." A roofer's son, one of six children who grew up in Brooklyn's grim Bedford-Stuyvesant ghetto, Breland never found boxing particularly fearsome. "I like pain," he says breezily. "Before a fight, I am so hyped up I just want to bust. Everything boils...