Word: cancelling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...weeks ago, MICHAEL HAYDEN, star of Broadway's current CAROUSEL revival, fell ill with a strained voice. Alas, his understudy had a bronchial infection. Rather than cancel the show indefinitely, producers turned to MARCUS LOVETT, who was winding up a stint as the lead in the long-running The Phantom of the Opera. Lovett had to learn Carousel in a mere two days -- and went on to critical huzzahs. Amazingly, this wasn't the first time Broadway life has imitated corny backstage melodrama...
...down briefly in 1974, where a museum was prosecuted in 1990 for displaying the late Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs, and where an antigay ordinance was enacted last November, the play is potentially shocking -- so much so that Ensemble Theatre, which commissioned the world premiere, voted at one point to cancel it. "A number of directors who are involved with big corporations in town felt queasy," says board chairman Paul Rogers. Ultimately the board decided that dropping the show would contravene the troupe's commitment to new plays (its season has also included a world premiere of Fragments -- A Concerto Grosso...
...expressed an understanding of Greenspan's position, he said he hoped that raising short-term rates would not jack up long-term rates as well -- and that proved to be exactly what happened. A second Clinton-Greenspan meeting on March 18 embarrassed both sides when the Fed chairman abruptly canceled a scheduled speech to attend the session and word of it leaked out. News of the meeting, during which Greenspan again explained his thinking to Clinton in general terms, helped rattle the markets when the Fed boosted interest rates on March 22. "Greenspan might have warned us that...
...vote, Alabama's Randolph County school board reinstated Hulond Humphries, the white high school principal accused of trying to cancel a prom to avoid interracial dating. The only white school-board member to join the lone black member in voting against Humphries resigned in protest...
Your report is thought provoking. If in 4 million years mankind has made such anthropological progress, one can only wonder what the next millennium will bring. Will technological advances cancel out further physiological and intellectual development? Will a willful disregard of the laws of natural selection bring a Utopian society or a degenerating social organization and extinction...