Word: impresarios
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...Bush's battle group was winging on its thunderous way, Mort Engelberg, the Hollywood producer turned bus-caravan impresario for the Clinton-Gore campaign, was in a dank Cleveland hotel mapping yet another ground-level incursion down the back ways of this civilization through Ohio and around Lake Erie to Buffalo. The earlier buscades along the Ohio and Mississippi river valleys were surprisingly successful strikes, finding people in neighborhoods where they lived, not at airports or pre-packaged arenas. Reporters from local television stations could hitch a bus ride for a hundred bucks or so a day, compared with more...
...Gore to pull some 30 points ahead of Bush in the polls. Minnesota's Vin Weber said several of his colleagues sarcastically urged the Bush-Quayle campaign to stop "sitting on our lead." Meanwhile, some of Bush's conservative critics -- including columnists George Will and A.M. Rosenthal, direct-mail impresario Richard Viguerie and policy analyst Burton Pines -- suggested that he step aside in favor of a stronger candidate. Terry Eastland, author of a new book on the presidency titled Energy in the Executive, speaks for many fellow conservatives when he observes that "Bush has not put forward a positive reason...
However limited its accomplishments, last month's Earth Summit in Rio signified the participants' acceptance of what Maurice Strong, the main impresario of the event, called "the transcending sovereignty of nature": since the by-products of industrial civilization cross borders, so must the authority to deal with them...
Obituaries tend to be occasions for breathless hyperbole and for reducing rich, messy lives to tidy summations. Why should this one be any different? After all, no postwar American literary institution has had a more profound cultural influence than Mad magazine, and William Gaines, the aggressively idiosyncratic impresario who launched and then ran the magazine for four decades, is a singular character in 20th century American publishing -- the anti-Luce...
...sets and costumes) and Charles MacLeod (lights) achieve just the right balance between the seedy and the dreamlike in this California pierside. Most of the 25 actors are only adequate, however, and not one has a first-rate singing voice. Jeff McCarthy has a sledgehammer unsubtlety as the unscrupulous impresario Rocky, Thomas Nahrwold is bland in the underwritten lead role of a failed film director, and Kathy Morath plays his despairing partner with an unrelenting snarl...