Word: ens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...different world, all right: Vegas-style glam, with a heavy German accent. Indeed, the show--conceived by Berlin restaurateur Hans-Peter Wodarz and a hit in Berlin, Venice and Paris--is stopping in New York City (through March) en route to the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. But the show, which offers a meal, a circus and a lot of comic milling for $150 per person (excluding drinks), means to be the ultimate upmarket version of show-biz spectacle. The decor is suitably lavish. The four-course dinner is ambitious, if too heavily salted. And the entertainment is strenuous...
Granat roared into the finals after soundly defeating four different opponents, losing only one set en-route. Chai, who received a bye for her first round, also crushed her next three opponents...
...warmed the heart. For if last week's ceremony lacked the breakthrough drama of its predecessor, it offered something the earlier accord did not--a blueprint for peace and reconciliation unprecedented in its scope and detail. Stage managers from the Clinton Administration did their bit to improve the mise-en-scene, having decided as long ago as last July that this ceremony, if it ever happened, would be enhanced by the presence of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and King Hussein of Jordan. Further hand-holding from the White House became necessary when Rabin and Arafat balked over an unresolved hitch...
...fact, this rodent's fealty has earned it lasting infamy. To follow someone or something unquestioningly is to behave like a lemming marching en masse to its own death...
...Crimson defeated Notre Dame, Long Beach, and Wolfred (from North Carolina), en route to its seventh-place showing. This was the first time that the Crimson had ever competed against west coast teams...