Word: jannings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...comes Phantom. Rarely has a show been so eagerly anticipated, and never has one enjoyed such a box-office buildup. Opening Jan. 26, it has already taken in an unprecedented $16 million in advance sales, $4 million more than the previous record holder, Les Miserables. On the day the Majestic Theater box office opened in November, buyers -- many of whom had queued up in the cold overnight -- snapped up $920,271 worth of tickets, easily breaking the one-day record of $477,275 set by Les Miz. As in London, where Phantom is the theatrical event of the season, seeing...
...weeks ago, Israeli soldiers entered a shabby camp dwelling, where some of the family now live, and took away Hamad's son Bashir, 26. Last week the Israeli government announced that Bashir, who was to have been married on Jan. 22, would be deported...
...British composer of Evita and Cats has his biggest hit yet in Phantom, which opens Jan. 26 after an all- time- record advance sale. With his shows playing from Budapest to Tokyo, Lloyd Webber, 39, presides over a musical empire that brings him more than $1 million a month (though not always critical acceptance) and is making him a superstar. See SHOW BUSINESS...
...Robins had discovered a cure for cancer. Two U.S. drug companies (Manhattan-based American Home Products and the Rorer Group of suburban Philadelphia) and one foreign pharmaceutical and cosmetics house (Sanofi of Paris) made offers for Robins. As the bids proliferated, a federal bankruptcy judge gave Robins a Jan. 6 deadline to pick a suitor and file a reorganization plan...
...failure in the booster-rocket test was unrelated to the malfunction that caused the Challenger explosion on Jan. 28, 1986, when fire burned through an O-ring that sealed the joint between two rocket sections. This time the problem was in a flexible boot ring that helps anchor the swiveling rocket nozzle to the rigid booster case. Nearly half of the ring, which is 8 in. wide, 2 in. thick and 8 ft. in diameter, broke away during the horizontal ground test; some pieces were found inside the booster. The nozzle had been deliberately shifted 7 degrees, just 1 degrees...