Word: conrade
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Adventures of Captain Neato-Man," the superstraight young Larry (Nick Parillo) comes to an apartment in response to a secretarial ad. Timidly entering the open door, he soon finds himself cornered on the couch by a lusty woman in a leopard-print dressing gown (Jessie Conrad), who accuses him huskily of breaking in and trying to take advantage of her. Just then a curly-haired apparition in full superhero gear bursts...
After barely six months at Hilton, Bollenbach has added a layer to the empire bequeathed by former CEO Barron Hilton, the son of founder Conrad. Last month the company agreed to buy Bally Entertainment's hotels and casinos, adding 4,826 rooms to Hilton's collection of 99,105 and, more important, giving Hilton two gambling tents in Atlantic City, New Jersey, a place now fairly bursting at the seams with wage burners. "He's brilliant and a terrific guy," says Trump, the once and future king of Atlantic City, whose own company can't build rooms fast enough...
...step in Bollenbach's campaign is bound to be international. Nine years ago, Hilton's international properties were sold and are now owned by Ladbroke's, a British gambling concern. Bitter disputes followed, especially after Hilton began opening overseas hotels called Conrad. Both companies could benefit from a joint marketing agreement, if not a merger...
...Kathleen began "OpSmile" in 1982; since then it has performed surgery on 18,000 kids in 15 countries to correct--without charge--such disfigurements as cleft palates and burn scars, while training local doctors in the procedures. Says William: "The world is changed by emotion." On June 20, the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation will award the group a $1 million prize...
While the first act of "Ordinary People" is depressing, the second act builds the audience's spirits back up, so that by the end a glimmer of hope has actually broken through Conrad's darkness. Unlike his friend Karen, Conrad manages to survive. He sings that he has learned from the people he has met and there are "A lot of things I'd like to change, but I'll take what I can get." In the program, director Victor Chiu asks the audience to remember this as the musical's message: "This Hope. Have faith in it. Take...