Word: closers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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BOSTON: MacWorld bomb shell? Steve Jobs, Apple's not-chairman, mentioned in the closer on his address this morning, that, oh yes, by the way, Microsoft is going to be investing $150 million in the troubled Cupertino company. (sound of the Macintosh faithful fainting...) What does Bill Gates get for his money? A stock that at 19 3/4 is a relative bargain in today's hyper bull market. More important, keeping Apple afloat allows Gates to continue to use the alternative to Windows as his hole card in federal antitrust investigations. But looking down the long road ahead, does Bill...
BOSTON, Mass. : MacWorld bomb shell? Steve Jobs, Apple's not-chairman, mentioned in the closer on his opening address this morning, that, oh yes, by the way, Microsoft is going to be investing $150 million in the troubled Cupertino company. What does Bill Gates get for his money? A stock that at 19 3/4 is a relative bargain in today's hyper bull market. More important, keeping Apple afloat allows Gates to continue to use the alternative to Windows as his hole card in federal antitrust investigations. But looking down the long road ahead, does Bill have deeper designs...
...forefront of the movement are McDonagh, 26; Patrick Marber, 32, whose play Closer is running at the National's small Cottesloe Theatre; and Mark Ravenhill, 31, whose controversial play Shopping and F______ is finishing a month-long run at the West End's Gielgud Theatre before heading to Edinburgh; it will be seen in New York City early next year. An earlier trilogy of McDonagh's opened this past weekend at the Duke of York's, which makes him the only writer this season, apart from Shakespeare, to have four plays running concurrently in London...
...reflect the world their authors see around them. The lost children in Shopping, the vomiting drug users and underage "rent boys" that Ravenhill depicts with such clear-eyed intelligence, are not there to chastise or shock the audience any more than a stripper and a doctor in Marber's Closer are there simply to comment on sex as a transaction or on socialized medicine. These characters exist not to tell us something we already knew when we came into the theater but to represent particular, idiosyncratic habits of mind and give voice to something that could not be expressed...
...China [ONE COUNTRY, MANY SYSTEMS, June 30]. Satisfaction with the handover was certainly not the feeling I heard expressed when I talked to Hong Kong residents shortly after the decision to return the island had been made. The Chinese know all too well what happens to dissidents. The closer it got to the deadline for the handover, the more people were afraid to express their true feelings to strangers and in front of TV cameras. If Hong Kong had not been a British colony, it would most likely be a typical Chinese city today: shoddily built and polluted, instead...