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...result, prices are falling and profits are being squeezed. International Minerals and Chemical, a major fertilizer maker in Northbrook, Ill., will earn only about $3 per share this year, compared with $4.56 last year, according to Dean Witter Reynolds Analyst George Krug. He thinks that the Williams Cos., a big fertilizer producer in Tulsa, Okla., will earn about $1.50 this year, down from $3.32 in 1981. One saving note: since farmers expect higher prices, they plan to use extra fertilizer on the acreage they plant this year to increase productivity...
...headdresses that once topped the nakedness of Paris showgirls. On the gallery walls are Erté's original paintings of the sets and costumes he created for such disparate productions as George White's Scandals in New York City in the '20s and Mozart's Così fan tutte at the Paris...
...boast a T.S. Eliot as its lyricist, so to speak. Even if Eliot was playfully doodling for his godchildren and friends in his 1939 Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, he remains a god in the pantheon of 20th century poets. Cats Director Trevor Nunn and Designer-Cos-tumer John Napier, of the Royal Shakespeare Company, took Broadway's breath away last season with their monumental Nicholas Nickleby. And at age 34, Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has achieved the unprecedented feat of having three musicals playing simultaneously in London (Evita, Cats and Song & Dance) and New York...
This year, however, the failed smaller companies have been joined by such large, well-capitalized corporations as Braniff Airways, Wickes Cos., Saxon Industries and De Lorean Motor Co. Says Purdue University Professor William Dunkelberg: "The recession is performing the age-old process of creating leaner, meaner and more efficient firms. Unfortunately, the recession has also cut heavily into the lean and mean. We've lost established companies to low demand and high debt...
...portray real emotions on the stage instead of stylized attitudes, and his inventive use of the orchestra as an active participant instead of merely an accompanist, powerfully influenced later generations of composers. In the works he created with Librettist Lorenzo da Ponte-The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni and Così Fan Tutte-Mozart's genius transcended the conventional boundaries of master-servant comedies and lovers' farces to create a new kind of psychological music drama...