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...called Venrock was created in 1969. It has since made lucrative investments in both Intel, a successful semiconductor manufacturer, and Apple Computer. One venture that did not work out was Advent Corp., which filed for bankruptcy when its big-screen TV sets did not sell. Admits Managing Partner Peter Crisp, 48: "We have some companies that have lost money, of course, but no really big bloopers...
...played in an excruciatingly droll fashion by Chip Zien, a leaky roof is kept over all heads. From the opening number, Four Jews in a Room Bitching, the humor is spikily and spicily urban and ethnic. The actors are spirited, and Director James Lapine's tempo is stopwatch crisp. In astringence and cleverness, Finn is the child of Stephen Sondheim. In the current musical theater, no one could choose a better master or pay an apter tribute...
...deal with such routine legal issues as workmen's compensation, divorce settlements and tort actions, see her in the mold of judges who exercise "judicial restraint." "She tends to be a literalist with acute respect for statutes," said Frank O'Connor's colleagues consider her decisions crisp and well written. "Mercifully brief and cogent," said McGowan. "Clear, lucid and orderly," said Frank. But one Supreme Court clerk finds her writing "perfectly ordinary-no different from any other 2,000 judges around the country...
...Royal's director and principal choreographer in 1970 after 35 years with the company, he remains active, casting and rehearsing his ballets. "Some of the dancers ask for me specifically," he notes. "They get something from me they don't get from other people." A master of crisp classicism, Ashton cannot read music, but his feeling for it is strong. "My reaction is spontaneous," he says. "Once I've chosen the music for a ballet, I completely inundate myself in it. I listen to nothing else, so that it becomes part of me-I'm drenched...
...slow and painful death without all of this trouble from outsiders. When it comes upon its massacred offspring and nudges their mutilated little bodies in desperate hopes of finding a trace of life, you will no doubt feel more sympathy than when some damsel gets herself burned to a crisp. If only there had been some way of keeping the dragon in front of the camera more, perhaps they could have rewritten the whole story and done it from the bad guy's point of view...