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...tournament, which will involve several stages of competition, will culminate in a final round to be held at the Fleet Center in Boston prior to the National Hockey League's All-Star game in January...
...Those would have been fighting words to the ragged band of hippies and tree huggers who founded Greenpeace in the late '60s. But times have changed. Today Greenpeace boasts 3.1 million dues-paying members, a $140 million budget, 1,000 full-time staff members, 43 offices worldwide and a fleet of oceangoing vessels. More and more, it has come to resemble the very corporate giants that have been its enemies. (TIME is the target of an ongoing Greenpeace campaign protesting the magazine's use of chlorine-bleached pulp...
Kron's standup doesn't launch a thousand ships of raucous laughter, but it does send off a fleet of mirthful and giggling little paper boats--enough humiliation for a lifetime...
...production. Nevertheless, Newman's work is savory enough on its own to guarantee a fair return under any auspices, except, perhaps, Carol Channing's. Bilious, outrageous and full of flinty, funny challenge, Faust has undergone sardonic transformation from what the author calls Goethe's "big brain thing" into a fleet Newmanesque parable of eliding destinies and colliding cultures. It is also guaranteed to contradict any lingering impression that, as Newman notes, "people think I've disappeared." But, he adds quickly, "it's not like I'm selling a million records and the public is begging for the album and there...
...both capitalism and pop-cultural creativity. But another deal last week brought the scenario a step toward plausibility. Time Warner and Turner Broadcasting System declared they were deep in negotiations that could lead to a Time Warner purchase, led by chairman Gerald Levin, of Ted Turner's prize fleet of media properties. If it flies, the deal would again make Time Warner the world's largest media outfit, vaulting over Disney, which has claimed the title for a month after agreeing to buy Capital Cities/ABC for $19 billion...