Word: partnering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sleeker, more focused, less distracted by those often annoying comic interludes. Instead of a Hill Street-style ensemble cast, the show revolves around two characters: detective John Kelly (David Caruso), a red-haired department veteran going through a painful divorce, and Andy Sipowicz (Dennis Franz), his hotheaded, battle-fatigued partner. Some of Bochco's devices have become too facile and familiar (the shaky, hand-held camera; a major character who takes six slugs at point-blank range and survives miraculously the following week). But his storytelling skills have never been sharper, and his favorite theme -- the clash between institutions...
Oded Ben-Ami, a spokesman for Rabin, watched it in wonder. "It was a handshake with someone who just a moment ago was the devil in person," he said, "and from now on is your partner in negotiation." The Lebanese daily L'Orient-Le Jour made a cooler but no less momentous assessment: "A prodigious moment this handshake, soberly, none too warmly exchanged between Rabin and Arafat, as if they were crushed by the terrible responsibility that their historic gesture condemned them to share." This is the stuff of modern diplomatic power. It is impulsive and ephemeral and can vanish...
...ahead by his board -- which includes representatives from his big investors, TCI and Time Warner -- to explore a rival offer. Barry Diller, chairman of the QVC shopping network, is also interested, as is Blockbuster Entertainment. Further tangling the web: TCI chairman John Malone, who is Diller's equity partner as well as Turner's, could make a bid either alone or in conjunction with the other two. Such suitors could in part be attracted by the slippage in Viacom's stock, which fell 6 1/8 after the bid for Paramount to close at 59 7/8 last week, thus reducing...
Wendy Prellwitz, a partner with Cambridge-based Prellwitz/Chilinski Architects, which is overseeing the project, said yesterday her firm intended the sculpture and renovation to Holyoke Center "to bring some color to an otherwise gray dated building...
...sequel to the gay-rights movement. A lot of gays wanted to have kids and presumed they could not. People started realizing they could live like everyone else." Nongay clinicians are not always so sensitive. Says Debra Samdperil, a Boston photographer who wants a child to raise with her partner, psychologist Laurie Livingston: "The doctors continue to see me as a single woman, not as part of a couple...