Word: ma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Calls for spirits are the lowest ever at the superdeluxe Ma Maison restaurant in Los Angeles; wine accounts for 80% of sales. Patrons of New York City's most famous saloon, the "21" Club, are rattling the aged bar with their orders for such low-proof and nostalgic concoctions as kir royale--champagne sweetened with a spoonful of French black-currant liqueur. At Elaine's restaurant, an uptown Manhattan hangout favored by the likes of Woody Allen and Michael Caine, the wee-hours drinkers have evaporated; the bar empties "early," around 1 a.m. Commuters on the Long Island Rail Road...
...sweet, small, no-stars musical based on Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, captured ten nominations, one for best musical. Joe Egg, a searing and yet raucously funny story about the parents of a hopelessly retarded child, was nominated for three acting awards and for best revival. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, a bitter and explosive recollection of racial prejudice that unfolds during a recording-studio session for a 1920s blues band, won three nominations, including one for best play...
...most remarkable of the three survivors is Ma Rainey. Playwright August Wilson had never had a play produced commercially. The cast were relative unknowns. The play's subject is gloomy and its ending violent; the characters are mostly black, and the two whites are unsympathetic. Yet since it opened last October, it has played to 60% of capacity in the 1,108-seat Cort Theater, although it has not yet been able to repay its backers...
...Peter J. Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Minister in Memorial Church, who presented the award to Lebowitz at last night's benefit concert by cellist Yo-Yo Ma '76, praised Lebowtiz for his work with children in Canton, Mass who are victims of spina bifida...
Sprint, MCI, Allnet, and some of AT&T's other competitors also participate in the growing ad war, but none has rivaled Ma Bell's assault on collegiate conversationalists. College Students call home a lot, AT&T reasons, and the folks often foot the bill. As a result, the only advertisement as frequent as that for ROTC in collegiate publications is the AT&T Thinking Student...