Word: impresario
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...bikini, it was the men who'd be crashing their cars into telephone poles. Now the women look and go crazy. 'Look at those legs!' they shout. 'Way to go!' " It is the way those aristocrats of physical culture, the modern and ballet dancers, have always gone. Says Impresario Paul Taylor: "The dancer's body is superb as a functioning instrument to accomplish physical feats." Deb bie Allen, who plays a dance teacher and serves as choreographer on the NBC-TV series Fame, sees dancing as "a precision art. Doing the things your body might not want to do keeps...
...that 22 years, Manning, 50, worked at the approximate site of that old telegraph terminal, but only the legends of Lincoln's days remained. When Manning retired three weeks ago, as head of the White House's travel and telegraph impresario he was known in governments around the world as the impresario of transport and electronics for that modern phenomenon of communication called the White House press corps. It was Manning who helped keep the news umbilical hooked up to the presidency, from Lahore to Reykjavik. He traveled 4 million miles in the line of duty...
...withhold many secrets any more. Everyone who did not, for one reason or another, travel to China last year is sure to go this year. A tour bus runs down nearly every street in the global village. When does travel degenerate into snobbism or a stunt? Lars-Eric Lindblad, impresario of the edifyingly exotic, takes the vacationing bartender where Darwin most remotely went...
Trial by Jury, and persuaded the aspiring grand opera composer Arthur Sullivan to write the accompanying melodies. D'Oyly Carte's brand-new Savoy, to which Patience moved in 1881 from the Opera Comique, was the first theater in London to be lighted by electricity. The impresario himself had to reassure the audience that the innovation was safe. Today it is clear the troupe needs some fresh and electrical impetus and perhaps even a new Savoy...
...great majority of AT&T shareholders are small investors. Only 139,038 people and organizations own more than 600 shares each, while 938,457 have fewer than 20 each. Impresario Billy Rose once owned 80,000 shares of Telephone worth $11.2 million and liked to brag that he was the company's largest single shareholder. Today the largest block of stock is controlled by the College Retirement Equities Fund, a pension plan for teachers, which has 7.2 million shares worth $423 million...