Word: nightclubs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bypass the brain and speak directly to the heart. In the words of the playwright Federico Garcia Lorca, it "knows death, knows blood, knows love." And that awful but powerful knowledge is what this revue seeks to convey. As its title indicates, it presents the real, raw stuff, without nightclub flourish or Jose Greco's acrobatic flamboyance...
Today, Triple Five, with $4.3 billion in assets, ranks as one of Canada's largest firms. In addition to their megamall in Edmonton, the Ghermezians operate six hotels in the area and a popular local nightclub called Goose Loonie's that features rock bands and dancers in skintight Lycra outfits. The family empire also includes several high-rise apartment buildings in Edmonton and housing developments in the city's sprawling suburbs...
...idol. He will manage Turner's life and finances, fight to free Turner from the embrace of asylums, badger his ex-wife for money to support the musician, leave his young daughter at home alone till dawn so he can listen to an old master in a smoky nightclub. For the French, love is l'amour fou. Francis is wise enough to love Turner and mad enough to let this parasitic devotion rule his life...
...besieged her with love letters and flowers and took her for long walks on endless stretches of beach. He dressed up in an old raccoon coat to take her to Topsy, a local nightclub; he loved to hold her in his arms during the tango and foxtrot. On the second anniversary of their meeting, after she continued to turn down his proposals of marriage, the young swain wrote her, "When the winds blow and the rains fall and the sun shines through the clouds . . . he still resolves as he did then, that nothing so fine ever happened...
...show, which opened last November at Sweetwater's nightclub in uptown Manhattan, has played to healthy houses at the Gate since March and has already recouped its $175,000 investment. A Washington company has extended its run after a sold-out six-week engagement. Beehive's producers will open a West Coast version of the show and are negotiating for other companies in Boston, Cleveland, New Orleans and Dallas, while fielding calls of interest from Japan, Britain, Monte Carlo, Israel and Australia. Our music, it seems, was their music; our past is Beehive's bankroll. "If you're between...