Word: mortons
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...good. The series is a rare contemporary example of that toughest of all TV genres, the anthology show. Each week features a different, unrelated story linked only by the downtown Manhattan setting and a couple of recurring secondary characters (Philip Bosco as the owner of a restaurant and Joe Morton as a policeman who frequents...
Sarah Tuttleton captures the teenage self-righteousness of Nora Morton with supernatural accuracy. And while Alexis Susman does have that much room to work with the spoiled Laurie Morton, Susman holds her own when confronted with the smothering affections of Shilling and Poreba...
...restaurants finds that many are doing better than their lobbyists would have the public believe. "The 80% rule has had little effect on our business, and we expect no change at 50%," says Thomas Baldwin, the chief financial officer of Quantum Restaurant Group, which owns 46 establishments, including the Morton's of Chicago steak houses. "It's now in vogue for restaurateurs to state that the tax change will have an adverse affect. But we've seen a surge in revenues just since the election...
...Rzewski graduated from Phillips Academy Andover in 1954 and came to Harvard. He studied here under Walter Piston but was also greatly influenced by Christian Wolff, at that time a graduate student in the classics department. Wolff introduced Rzewski to the avant-garde chance techniques of John Cage and Morton Feldman as well as those of Wolff himself, and Rzewski eventually became as famous for performing the works of these composers as for his own music. Upon graduating from Harvard, Rzewski spent two years at Princeton before going to Europe on Fulbright and Ford Foundation grants to study with Luigi...
...formidable. Philip Ziegler observes that if the couple were to divorce, "it would be damaging, and a great asset to the royal family would be lost or eliminated." For the moment there remains some effort at peacemaking. After her return from South Korea, Diana released a statement aimed at Morton's new chapter, saying that the Queen and Prince Philip had always supported her -- which was read as confirmation that the circumstances of her marriage required some support...