Word: fines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What accounted for the Met's reluctance to take him on? Questions of casting and contracts fascinate and frustrate opera fans, who are usually well aware of hot new reputations in Europe. One reason may be that the company already had two fine American basses in James Morris and Paul Plishka; another is that Artistic Director James Levine tends to favor his own discoveries. There was also the perceived stigma of the City Opera; the two companies may be geographical neighbors, but they are artistic strangers. "There were lots of theories," notes Ramey. "One of them was that...
...home's appraised value, to avoid saddling customers with too much debt. Officers at Chicago's Continental Illinois are instructed to urge consumers to use the loans for necessities, not just to buy expensive goodies. The best advice to would-be borrowers remains the oldest: read the fine print before signing on the bottom line...
...line with three awards. In addition to Midler, lifetime awards went to Lucille Ball, Woody Allen, Carol Burnett, Lily Tomlin, Mary Tyler Moore, Mel Brooks, Steve Allen and All in the Family Producer Norman Lear. "Anytime they want to include me in the same breath with Lucille Ball is fine by me," said the Divine Miss M. "I've never had quite a year like this before -- every dream I ever had came true...
Some Texaco creditors are said to hope that an eventual Holmes a Court takeover of the company would force a settlement of its long legal war with Houston-based Pennzoil. That struggle has raged since November 1985, when a Texas jury slapped Texaco with a $10.5 billion fine for interfering with a merger agreement between Pennzoil and Getty Oil, a judgment that finally led to Texaco's bankruptcy filing in April. On the other hand, Holmes a Court's purchase may mean that he believes a settlement between the two sides is in the wind, a development that would push...
...tramping resolutely through the snow in her Loden coat have the banal neatness of things done for a women's magazine. Some of them, like the technically impressive watercolor In the Orchard, 1974, are as deadly in their "sensitiveness" as greeting cards. But there are some fine drawings here, moments of vision caught with attentiveness and precision, that have a lot more visual oomph than the more laboriously finished works. And two or three of the paintings are marvels of iconic condensation. Like a good second-rate novelist who can rise to first-rate episodes, Wyeth can surprise...