Word: heyday
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Director- choreographer Tommy Tune provides a pretentious last-minutes ballet between characters introduced as love and death. Despite these shortcomings, Grand Hotel is the musical winner of the season, bringing to mind, if not quite matching, the kinetic narratives of Harold Prince, Bob Fosse and Michael Bennett in their heyday. Tune takes a set more cluttered than Threepenny's -- fluted columns, a revolving door, dozens of chairs -- and weaves around it a ceaseless flow. If some of the wizardry is borrowed from bygone auteur directors, that is in keeping with the real meaning of Brecht's dictum: know enough...
When the beer industry was in its heady heyday, brewers saw little reason to give discounts. But in these sober times, sales have gone flat, and brewers are ready to use drastic measures to defend their place in America's coolers. Last week market leader Anheuser-Busch announced an aggressive round of price cuts in response to markdowns by its archrivals, notably Miller Brewing and Adolph Coors. Anheuser-Busch will cut the prices of its major brands, including Budweiser and Michelob, by as much as 25 cents a twelve-pack to match competitors. The company says the markdown is necessary...
This fantasy, not to mention the reality it enhances, pays little heed to the army of underlings who made these idle splendors possible. In The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro tries to right that imbalance: he reconstructs in fiction the world of a stately home in its heyday, between the two world wars, from the point of view of a butler...
...tourists is visiting the Dujiangyan irrigation system -- another marvel of China's ancient genius -- built 2,200 years ago. On a misty morning the tourists can barely make out an aging, abandoned hydroelectric plant about a mile upstream. Like much of what was built by the Soviets during the heyday of Sino-Soviet cooperation in the 1950s, this power station too is crumbling. In fact, the plant had been little used; the Soviet advisers had sited it improperly...
ROLLING STONES: THE LONDON YEARS (Abkco). An avalanche of gems: 58 of the greatest rock-'n'-roll singles of all time, culled from the Stones' hitmaking heyday, 1963 to 1971, including some rare B-side cuts...