Word: dracula
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...year high of 9.8%, it was not particularly happy with Jimmy Carter in the White House either. In 1980 Carter got labor's nod, but after the election, AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland urged that his federation change its political approach to avoid facing "a choice between Dracula and Frankenstein." Last week the AFL-CIO moved to prevent a horror show...
...better days for being the breadbasket of the Balkans, and a land area about the size of Oregon, Rumania has survived everything from occupation by Roman legions to the murderous 15th century excesses of Prince Vlad Tepes, widely thought by scholars to be the real-life model for Count Dracula of Transylvania, fiction's most famous vampire...
...Dracula. An affable count of the title achieves celebrity status in his Transylvania community by becoming the first citizen to show up when the new blood bank holds its first blood-donation...
Those faces-stamped, printed and painted on nearly everything-are not, alas, always recognizable. The Guardian sneered that a foreign visitor might suppose "that we were preparing to celebrate the wedding of Miss Bo Derek to the late Count Dracula." Nor do all the portraits meet the palace directive that they be reproduced only on substances of a permanent nature. Wedgwood's basalt bust of Charles fits the bill at $1,700. So does a $1,200 cannon adorned with H.R.H.'s coat of arms. But Charles and Di T shirts are taboo, to the consternation of British...
...comforting facts. Last year the plays that she produced with her partner, Nelle Nugent, grossed more than $14 million. Since McCann and Nugent went into business less than five years ago, they have been responsible, in whole or in part, for some of Broadway's biggest hits: Dracula, The Elephant Man, Morning's at Seven, Amadeus. When they started, their colleagues referred to them simply as the girls. Now they are respectfully called the ladies-or, more appropriately, the golden ladies...