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...definition literally. Broadway box office is dominated by maximalist musicals known to cynics as the helicopter show (Miss Saigon), the chandelier show (The Phantom of the Opera), the barricades show (Les Miserables) and the zoo story (Cats). But occasionally on Broadway, and incessantly off it, this is also a heyday of the one-person show...
Indeed, just five years after the fateful date passed, the Berlin wall was down and the Soviet Union had collapsed. Gone were the Staasi, the KGB and the secret police forces of every other fallen communist regime, which in their heyday terrorized ordinary civilians with the knowledge that their words and actions were being watched. Across the East Bloc and around the world, people breathed easier at the spread of freedom and the demise of Big Brother...
Such inconsistency has been a trademark of the team all season: one night it forgets how to play the game and the next it looks like the Celtics in their heyday...
George Gershwin's early years were the heyday of ragtime and the blues, of barroom and bordello "perfessers" in spats and hats, of Tin Pan Alley song pluggers and sidewalk player pianos, whose invisible hands held passersby enthralled with their fascinatin' rhythms. So young George was only doing what came naturally when, at age 18, he sat down to cut a piano roll of his first published song, a frisky ditty called When You Want 'Em, You Can't Get 'Em, When You've Got 'Em, You Don't Want...
...concluded the war against the $15 billion-a-year cocaine industry. At most, Escobar's end simply ushers in a new battle against those who have taken over the turf. "While the police hunted him down," says a Drug Enforcement Administration official, "other criminal groups had a heyday. The bottom line is that the cocaine business is bigger than ever...