Word: cole
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Boeing vehicles have a history of instability, derailments, and mechanical problems, State Rep. Lincoln P. Cole Jr., Vice Chairman of the MBTA's advisory board, said yesterday. Problems with the LRVs' stability and jumping the tracks made them originally a "bad deal," Cole added...
...Cole said MBTA chairman Robert L. Foster inherited most of the MBTA's problems--problems that have led Foster to seek supplementary funds from the advisory board for this year's MBTA budget...
...Cole said Foster deserves credit for settling with Boeing out of court. "After all," he said, "if he's going to get the blame for everything bad that's happened, he should get some praise for the good...
...COLE PORTER, the famed ivory-tickler, chain-smoker and song-writer, was born in Peru, Indiana, in 1891 and--ever the New York jet set's suave darling--died in 1964. His portfolio of hit Broadway musicals includes Gay Divorce, Anything Goes, and DuBarry Was a Lady. He materialized recently at the opening night of the Kirkland House production of Kiss Me, Kate. A reporter quizzed him on his views of the performance...
Without the American musical theater there might not be any American theater. Except for a very occasional O'Neill or Williams, the great writers of the U.S. stage have not been playwrights but composers and lyricists: Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Richard Rodgers, George Gershwin, Frank Loesser, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, to name but a few. Beginning with the first modern musical, Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's Show Boat (1927), these writers have created a durable and increasingly versatile native art form. Broadway musicals at their best fuse music, dance, drama and plain old show...