Word: musicalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nothing to do with Ye Olde Tea Shoppes. These days quaint is a growth industry. Houlihan's Old Place, for example, has grown in the past seven years from one place in Kansas City to a national chain of 18 restaurants, featuring stained glass, antique kitsch and rock music. Recently bought by W.R. Grace, Houlihan's will open ten new restaurants this year at a cost of $1 million each. Part of Houlihan's decorating inventory, two warehouses full, came from Wilson's earlier auctions...
Indeed, the men voluntarily gave up two weeks of their vacation for the trip to Dartmouth without their wives and children. After 14 days of nonstop classes, plus evenings devoted to Spanish movies, music and Spanish bingo games, some of the New Yorkers found their enthusiasm for sylvan New England dwindling. I've had enough of rural America," said Officer David Weaver, 36. Added Officer Marino Cesarini, 33: "It's like living in a plastic bubble up here. They may have only one murder in 100 years...
DIED. Paul Dessau, 84, East German composer of operas and incidental music best known for his collaborations with Bertolt Brecht (Mother Courage, The Caucasian Chalk Circle); in East Berlin. Following a career as a violinist and conductor of the Staädtische Oper in Berlin, Dessau fled the Nazis in 1939 for America, where he began writing the dissonant scores that so effectively complemented Brecht's scripts. An old-line Communist, Dessau returned to East Germany after...
Caldwell is not the only Bostonian with a backbreaking challenge. Henry Sears Lodge, son of Henry Cabot Lodge, is battling over the Boston Music Hall, another grand old theater complete with marble doorways, gold-plated chandeliers and four tiers of promenades. Leased to Sack Theatres in 1962, the 4,200-seat Music Hall has been doubling as a movie palace and as a home for the Boston Ballet. Last summer, when a touring company of Broadway's Man of La Mancha unexpectedly sold out for twelve weeks, Sack President A. Alan Friedberg stepped up his efforts to renew...
...Marley, a highly political performer who helped catapult reggae music from relative obscurity to a highly popular form in Europe and America, will be the main attraction of the benefit concert...