Word: max
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Max Hunsicker...
...centerpiece of its urban renewal, defaulted two weeks ago and is still up for sale (asking price: $275 million, down from $500 million last spring). One bright spot in a dreary year: a revival in the inner city, with old office buildings being transformed into condominium apartments. Says Developer Max Fisher, who has invested in a $77 million apartment complex on the Detroit River: "To make downtown shopping viable, we need to have people living there...
...York Times has never warmed to Reagan, but has not before criticized him so sweepingly. As Max Frankel, editor of the editorial page, says, "The credibility of the tone of voice counts when you are trying to reach readers tempted to resist your conclusions." But for Frankel the climate has changed: "Do we belong to the culture at large? Sure. The same editorial 18 months ago would have sounded hollow or bitchy...
...bigger, and without all those people who talk funny and drive on the wrong side of the road. Fred Schepisi (The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith) and Bruce Beresford (Breaker Morant) both emigrated to Texas to make western romances (Barbarosa and Tender Mercies). George Miller, daredevil director of the Mad Max movies, is now helming an episode of Steven Spielberg's The Twilight Zone. This is the big leagues, with a more restrictive set of rules. The successful Australian director could end up making lots of money and losing his distinct national voice...
While dancing in a revival of On Your Toes at Washington's Kennedy Center, Ballerina Natalia Makarova, 42, heard the crash too late. Two lengthy pipes used as scenery ballast fell to the stage, striking the dancer. Dr. Max Cohen, 42, a clinical assistant professor of surgery at George Washington University School of Medicine, who had been sitting front row center, treated her for a fractured shoulder blade and a 3½-in. gash across the scalp. "She is in some ways fortunate to have survived," says Cohen. "It could easily have been more serious." Makarova will probably require...