Word: lebow
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...ready to cave in, the tobacco giants call the agreement a lot of huffing and puffing and a desperate ploy by Liggett boss Bennett LeBow to cut his losses and possibly force another cigarette maker to buy him out. Liggett's deal is transferable to any acquiring tobacco company except Philip Morris. "The only ones who potentially benefit from LeBow's latest shenanigans are plaintiffs' lawyers," said a joint statement from the four major cigarette makers (Philip Morris, R.J. Reynolds, Brown & Williamson Tobacco and Lorillard), who account for 98% of U.S. tobacco sales. Through the first nine months...
...wonder LeBow gleefully handed out smoking guns as if they were product samples. The smallest U.S. cigarette maker, whose brands include Chesterfield, L&M and Eve, admitted what just about everyone outside the industry long held as fact: that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer, heart disease and emphysema. In another affirmation of the obvious, Liggett acknowledged that nicotine is an addictive substance. That refuted the sworn denials that seven industry leaders, including a Liggett representative, made before Congress in 1994. Says LeBow of the thinking behind last week's confessions: "It was a business, a moral and a personal decision...
After decades of believing, antitobacco forces finally found their Santa Claus. Sure enough, he's short, plump and round, sports a silver beard and grins impishly. But his name isn't Santa Claus, it's Bennett LeBow...
...stark meditations. At one point, a white tiled box rises up from the stage to serve as an examination room for Woyzeck's tormenting doctor scientist. This room, which later serves as a gas-chamber for the doomed orderly, stands out in the production. The revolutionary doctor (Will LeBow) delights and disturbs in his twisted dealings with his misbehaving subject Woyzeck...
...Ibsen as funny; this production favors a style of self-revelation that continually provokes laughter--and not a few hisses. But the acting, like the characterization, is not reduced to pure satire. Each person reveals psychological depths and complexities that figure into the overall ambivalence of the play. Will LeBow as Hjalmer comes across as a theatrical poseur in his own house, painting himself alternately as a self-sacrificing hero, a man of genius, and the loving patriarch of his household. This pose that might seem a trifle overdone without the perspective offered in the first act of a much...