Word: piers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Arabia near the border with Kuwait. Within days, observers could see the source of the smell: a 16-km (10-mile) band of crude, so thick in places that the water heaved like mud. Iraq is believed to have opened the spigots of Kuwait's main supertanker-loadin g pier, the Sea Island terminal, 16 km offshore from the country's major petroleum refinery and loading complex at Mina Al-Ahmadi. Through pipes leading from giant storage tanks, millions of gallons of crude had been poured straight into the water. At the same time, at least three tankers docked there...
...show opens with two strong, bright numbers. The performers have an energy that audience cannot help but catch. Pier Carlo Talenti, Linda Doctoroff and Greg Schaeffer are obviously having a lot of fun with the first number, "Me and My Town." Doctoroff is sultry as she belts outs the lyrics and engages the audience by bantering with the other performers. Talenti and Schaeffer remain onstage ending the number with an up-tempo duet. Jenny Giering follows them, singing "The Glamorous Life...
There were times when the opening-night production, designed and directed in monumental style by Pier Luigi Pizzi, flirted dangerously with catastrophe. At one point, for example, materials fell from the overhead flies, causing the corpse of Hector to bring one hand protectively to his face. But the magnitude of the evening's triumph should not be underestimated. At a single stroke, it has made the reputation of Chung, up until now probably best known as the younger brother of violinist Kyung-Wha Chung. Against all odds, he assembled a cast whose only prominent members were sopranos Grace Bumbry (Cassandra...
...coming to mean extraordinary value for well-fixed investors. When two tiny, exquisite 18th century Philadelphia tables were auctioned at Christie's in Manhattan last Saturday, the prices they fetched were breathtaking. The first item, a dainty piecrust tea table, sold for $1.2 million; the second, a rectangular pier table less than 3 ft. high, was whisked from the block for $4.6 million...