Word: lefting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Earlier this month, Ammerman accompanied a six-member delegation of American and British families to West Germany to quiz investigators and government officials on terrorist links to Flight 103. The group emerged from three days of talks with little new information. But they left the Germans with the clear impression that their persistence will not fade...
...plumbers, bus drivers and doctors has only added to the misery, shutting down entire assembly lines, paralyzing health care, even forcing policemen to drive public buses. Says Sylko Roehle, 17, a machinist: "We saw what Poland and Hungary were doing; we heard Gorbachev. Everyone felt, Why are we being left behind...
There's no business like show business, even when it comes to off-screen commercial disputes. In a settlement that left Hollywood somewhat breathless last week, Warner Bros. and Sony Corp. ended their two-month battle over the services of Peter Guber and Jon Peters, the megahit producers of Batman and Rain Man. Warner agreed to release Guber, 47, and Peters, 44, from a five-year contract, thereby permitting Sony to hire the pair to run Columbia Pictures Entertainment, which the Japanese firm is acquiring for $3.4 billion. In return, Sony ceded entertainment assets to Warner Bros. that analysts estimated...
...return" (after commissions, insurance costs, inflation and so forth) of 19.6% a year. Handsome, but what about the new owner? If he sells it five years from now, the price must be $81 million before deductions for him merely to break even. And five years from then? Who gets left standing in this game of musical chairs...
...they always steal. Brecht's error was limiting his dictum to the best writers. The rest are equally ready to find inspiration where someone else found it before. This is especially true of writers of musicals: attempts at original stories have become all but unheard of. With six weeks left, the '80s have yet to yield a noteworthy American musical not derived from another source, whether fiction (Big River), folklore (Into the Woods), movies ("Nine") or a painting (Sunday in the Park with George...