Word: orphaning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...impressive as the old ones that have gone into it. The Man of La Mancha first had his impossible dream there in 1965, and Shenandoah followed nine years later. Annie also got her start there in 1976, and four years later is still S.R.O. on Broadway. Wherever the orphan goes, she is still remembered fondly in her home town of East Haddam, Conn. The 1% of Annie's box-office gross that the Opera House retained covers a substantial part of its $325,000 yearly deficit. After Johnny...
Many observers say that Carter sought the department's creation solely as a political payoff to the powerful NEA. The association issued its first-ever endorsement of a political candidate in exchange for Carter's agreement to find the orphan-child education a home...
...years later the bill arrives. A French acquaintance calls to say that the woman, Nicole Guerin, has been killed in an auto accident, leaving her nine-year-old son Jean-Claude an orphan. The caller is certain that Bob is the father of the child. Bob accepts paternity on rather thin evidence and is immediately skewered by a dilemma: Should he clam up and preserve the perfection of his homelife or fess up and accept responsibility for his illegitimate...
More accurately, it seemed like a scene from Annie, with the failing British Steel Corporation as the orphan child, and the part of Oliver Warbucks played by Ian MacGregor, general partner of Manhattan's Lazard Freres & Co. MacGregor, 67, was hired after nearly a year's search by the British government, which owns British Steel, turned up no one in England to run the moribund firm. Forty names were considered, and two British executives turned down...
Characters here are, as an airport sign reads, "Passengers in Transit," moving through emotions alone, along intersecting orbits in mechanical mystery. When staid government official Christian Thrale meets orphan Grace Bell at the symphony, two strangers' historical curves come together and fall into relation...