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...available for the telecasts by games originator Ted Turner on his TBS cable channel in the U.S. and on TV systems in more than 70 other nations. But in Seattle, where most events were staged, ticket sales lagged; there were even 1,000 empty seats at the welcoming gala. Turner raised his estimate of losses on the games from $13 million to $26 million or more. But he insisted that the event, which he created in 1986 in a different climate, retains its rationale. "Things have certainly improved as far as our government-to-government relations are concerned," Turner said...
...directed a seven-year fundraising campaign for the Faculty Arts and Sciences (FAS) and drew international attention to Harvard as he directed its 350th anniversary gala in 1986. And he will leave the University as it gears up for the largest fund drive ever for an institution of higher education--more than $2 billion...
PAUL TAYLOR DANCE COMPANY. This company's 35th anniversary New York season celebrates the vitality of America's best modern ensemble. In the repertory are two new works, including the full-length Of Bright & Blue Birds & the Gala Sun. And Taylor's dancers really can fly. Through...
...element of disguise. Last July, when she appeared in the inaugural performance at the new Bastille opera house in Paris, Anderson was unhappy with her specially designed gown from the French couturier Ungaro. She promptly began pulling it apart. To the rescue of French couture -- and that evening's gala -- rode "a nice man who got down on his knees and began pinning." His name? Pierre Berge, Yves Saint Laurent's multimillionaire business partner and France's culture czar...
...distasteful: women are treated as property, and both defeats of the devil depend on the notion that homosexuality is a fate worse than damnation. But Silverstein's script, told in verse with occasional bursts of music, is rowdy and rousing and raunchily uproarious, especially in a song about a gala party where saints and sinners mingle ("Richard III is comparing his hump with Quasimodo's"). The sole performer, as both Markham and his demonic adversary, is Dennis Locorriere, erstwhile singer-songwriter of the pop group Dr. Hook. His energy is boundless, his timing flawless, his depravity seemingly bottomless in this...