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There is the Walking Dead category, people who seem to have been killed, then made over with rouge and lip gloss. Then there are the marginally luckier people who appear to have just returned from roasting under tanning lamps. Finally there are the hybrids, those who fall between categories, appearing both dead...
...Diego Symphony was luckier. In 1985 its accumulated deficit was $2 million, and a bitter labor dispute closed the doors of Copley Symphony Hall for the entire 1986-87 season. A management change, coupled with more pops- oriented programming, produced several seasons of balanced budgets. But in the teeth of the recession, a million dollars had to be slashed from the orchestra's $7.7 million budget, accomplished by staff cuts and a 7% decrease in players' salaries. Says symphony president Warren Kessler: "The musicians made the concessions we needed to operate...
Renaldo Duval was luckier -- at least in the beginning. Financing his escape by selling a small house and a plot of land on the edge of the village, he established for himself a nest egg of 3,000 Haitian gourdes (about $100). Sent back in March, he bought a place on another boat. When he was returned a second time, he still had enough cash for yet another try. But to no avail. Broke, Duval wanders aimlessly around the village, destitute and bitter. "It would have been better for them to kill me there than to force me back here...
...people are luckier than those of you who came into this school," Silbert said. "Because they have hit bottom...
...score, all thunder, lightning and self-importance, reinforces the film's charmlessness, and Hoffman's Hook emblematizes it. He's broody and self-absorbed, utterly gleeless in his villainy. But then even Robin Williams, that freest of comic spirits, never has a truly antic moment. Roberts, as Tinkerbell, is luckier than her co-stars. Her character has no obligation to try to fill the already overstuffed screen. Couldn't possibly do it anyway, since she's only a wee little fairy, a couple of inches tall. But Roberts is ingenuous, unaffected and what Hook is only some of the time...