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...aims to show a profit after 36 weeks, a timetable he accomplished with Miss Saigon in London. Such claims of financial wizardry might be suspect from almost anyone else but this disarmingly frank and casual ex-stagehand. A keen intellect with a common touch, he presented four of the foremost international hits of the '80s, Cats, Phantom, Les Miz and Little Shop of Horrors, and is regarded as the world's nonpareil producer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Last Exit to the Land of Hope | 4/8/1991 | See Source »

...opera has been scheduled by its other co-producers -- the opera companies of Lyon; Glyndebourne, England; San Francisco; and Los Angeles -- as well as the Brooklyn Academy of Music, where it opens in September. This broad international debut will serve to confirm Adams, Goodman, Morris and Sellars as the foremost creative team working today on the operatic stage, and perhaps on any stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art And Terror in the Same Boat | 4/1/1991 | See Source »

...professes himself instantly smitten with their metropolis, Maxwell arrived by yacht to start negotiations and, before stepping into a waiting Cadillac, spoke the tantric words, "I love New York." Recalling the tradition of the News as "the people's paper," Maxwell said, "I want it to be, first and foremost, the voice of New York for the ordinary man. It will assist the town with its fiscal problems. I would also hope that the News would come to be seen as an important voice internationally to tell the world how America feels." Maxwell insists that the News will "certainly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Captain Bob's Amazing Eleventh-Hour Rescue | 3/25/1991 | See Source »

...human race existed before governments; perhaps it will exist long afterwards. While the state has given us many advantages, it has not granted us our lives. The Declaration of Independence quite rightly claims that people are "endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights"--life coming first and foremost...

Author: By Eric R. Columbus, | Title: Dump the Draft Forever | 3/16/1991 | See Source »

...Brown will be our foremost competition, and after that, Cornell appears very strong," Parker added. "We could possibly have some trouble with Yale as well...

Author: By Sean Becker, | Title: A Rebuilding Year For Men's Crew | 3/14/1991 | See Source »

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