Word: galas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Vienna I Love (Philips), a collection of waltzes, marches and snippets from familiar operas, performed by Andre Rieu, a Dutch violinist who looks a bit like Mel Gibson. At No. 8 was Rieu's From Holland with Love. Poised just below the chart was his newest release, Strauss Gala. This impressive lineup has made Rieu, at least for the moment, one of the hottest acts in classical music--rivaling Luciano Pavarotti, Kathleen Battle, even David Helfgott, whose recording of Rachmaninoff's Third Piano Concerto returned to the top spot, ending the Dutchman's two-week stay in that position...
...which puts him a few lengths behind another recent secret groom, LARRY KING, who got married for the seventh time in a private ceremony last week, three days before he was scheduled to undergo angioplasty to clear a blocked blood vessel. The wedding, which was originally to be a gala, star-studded affair, was held a day early because of the operation. On this occasion the happy bride was SHAWN SOUTHWICK, herself a veteran of two prior unions...
...helicopters and his father's yacht. In recent years he was one of the jet set's most renowned hosts, throwing parties in Beverly Hills populated by such celebrities as Tony Curtis, Farrah Fawcett and Robert Downey Jr. Guests say his hospitality ran to the grandiose, including a recent gala in a private home that featured a bowling alley, a band and movie showings in a screening room. It was reported that he owned five Ferraris...
...like this. I don't want to be known as the kook capital,'" says Bill Pope, interim CEO of the Roswell Chamber of Commerce, speaking with the easygoing charm and booster's earnestness one expects in a Southwestern city father. He is referring to next month's three-day gala marking the golden anniversary of the alleged crash in 1947 of a flying saucer near Roswell. It is a civic distinction that was long ignored by most Roswellians--Moore, for one, says she never heard of it while growing up--until a recent surge of national interest in extraterrestrial phenomena...
...eager to bid on what is expected to be a $2 billion multi-year contract. The unions fear not only the loss of thousands of government jobs in Texas but also the possibility that the idea could spread to other states. The day after the union snubbed the gala last week, the Clinton Administration disappointed state officials by declaring what it called a compromise: private companies could begin computerizing the paperwork, but the larger task of determining who is eligible for various forms of assistance should be left to government workers. The Communications Workers of America, with 15,000 jobs...