Word: gales
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Economic meltdown in Asia, collapsing hedge funds in Connecticut, mass layoffs at the brokerage houses, a falling market for expensive cigars and Ferraris--yet there goes the Bellagio, sailing into the teeth of the gathering global gale, with 3,000 of the highest-priced rooms in Vegas and something like $300 million worth of works of art nailed to its mast. All bought, over a little more than two years, by Stephen A. Wynn, 56, who had never collected anything except casino real estate and golf courses before--and who is, moreover, gradually losing his sight to retinitis pigmentosa...
...illustrator in this century made a larger splash than Newell Convers Wyeth. His charged, brilliantly lit images for Treasure Island, Kidnapped and many others still ring with celebration of childhood's fantasies. In this meticulous, satisfying biography, Michaelis captures Wyeth and his times vividly: the artist's gale-force energy and the immense gravity of the family circle from which he and his children (among them America's patron saint of Yankee nostalgia, Andrew) never pulled free. Though a few notes of adulation are too sonorous, they bespeak the kind of bigheartedness that N.C. would have admired. Bully...
...Director Gale Edwards, an Australian who staged a first-rate London revival of Jesus Christ Superstar in 1996, has put together a smooth, unshowy production, which combines functionality (a slab of concrete rises and lowers to create a two-tiered set) and lovely images (two teenagers riding a motorcycle in the mist against a deep-blue, storybook night sky). If the musical fails to capture the film's gentle ironies, it adds some intriguing sexual tension between the stranger (a charismatic Marcus Lovett) and the chief child (Lottie Mayor, several years older than Hayley Mills in the film...
...growing in enrollment by about 20% annually, says Jules LaPidus, president of the Washington-based Council of Graduate Schools, which represents 430 institutions. At Stanford's business school alone, the number of participants in its executive-education program is up almost 50% since 1991, according to program director Gale Bitter. The Kellogg school is expanding at a similar blistering pace. It had 44 executive-education courses with 2,700 participants in fiscal 1994; the number has jumped to 62 courses with 5,000 participants...
...there was Suddenly, The Man with the Golden Arm, Some Came Running, Pal Joey, A Hole in the Head, The Joker Is Wild, The Manchurian Candidate. These are not the credits of a dabbler. Despite his professed approach to the craft, which was breezy to the point of gale force, he kept company with junkies for Golden Arm and hung around with cops whenever he had to play on the cool side of the law. He did his homework. He just didn't want anyone to see his notes...