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...Hamelian advice is much tougher to carry out, because it means that if companies are to thrive with the twin challenges of globalization and terrorism, the CEO can no longer afford to be the man behind the curtain, pulling the levers of power all by himself...
Regardless of the new name, debauchery was certainly encouraged. A table of condoms preached safe sex while simultaneously hinting at chance encounters. Bottles of whip cream oozed kinkiness as layers of a cool smoke hid the sticky floor. A curtain replete with a strobe light illuminated the silhouettes of nasty dancers while onlookers grinded to Britney and Destiny’s Child...
...typical country church, this one outside Dengfeng county is run by a lay minister who has received no special training on dealing with strange sects. It is poor. The pulpit is a red flounce curtain draped over a desk; broken windows let the swirling central China dust coat the whitewashed walls. The biggest single expenditure this year was the $25 the congregation gave its most desperate members to celebrate the lunar new year. Every Sunday 150 peasants crowd onto low wooden benches to receive the Word, including a gray-haired woman known as Granny...
Applause, curtain call, happy ending, right? Wait--there may be an Act III. True, Kiss Me, Kate and most other Broadway shows have bounced back smartly since that plunge in attendance following the World Trade Center attacks. One of the four shows that closed, The Rocky Horror Show, is reopening. The Lion King and The Producers are selling out again. And even such gloomy dramas as Strindberg's Dance of Death are doing strong business. Marty Richards, whose musical The Sweet Smell of Success is coming to Broadway in March, is just one producer feeling that show-must...
...stage at the Wang Center on Oct. 15 was shrouded in black, hung with a curtain that was jaggedly pierced with holes and lit from behind. From offstage, Amos duskily murmured Eminem’s “’97 Bonnie and Clyde.” After frequently commenting in interviews that the drowned woman was invisible in the original version of the song, Amos’s implication was clear: She herself was nowhere to be found. Tension knotted the audience at each interval as they waited for her to appear, but the song ended without Amos?...