Word: pit
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Transatlantic equivalences of a different sort are the point-counterpoint of Richard Nelson's bracing New England, which has just completed a successful run at the Royal Shakespeare Company's Barbican Pit. Nelson, a New York-based American, portrays a ferociously articulate family of Britons who live in various parts of the U.S. Assembled in a Connecticut farmhouse in the aftermath of their father's suicide, they ostentatiously deplore the English penchant for putting down America, then in the next breath rail at their big, dumb, PC-riddled adopted homeland...
...orchestra, under the direction of Sarah Hicks's no-nonsense baton, weaves an intricate textural web that gives expressive if not always driving support to the singers. The balance between pit and stage in particular, combined with good diction on the part of the cast, make for clear and powerful presentation. Set and costumes both attest to the decisive victory of ingenuity over budget, creating the necessary verisimilitude. The exception to this is Benaim's particularly attention-getting wig that is as expressive...
...apartment building in Singapore had been complaining about the noise from Leeson's computer printer. It was grinding out copy from 8 p.m. to 4 a.m.--the hours Wall Street did business 12 time zones away. During the daytime, the young Englishman appeared distracted, almost dour. In the trading pit of the Singapore International Monetary Exchange, where Leeson worked from dawn to 7 p.m. among the other men who yelled at numbers careening across video screens, a fellow trader remembers that people would say hello to him and he wouldn't seem to hear them. At least he didn...
...Tuesday Feb. 21, amid the pit's uproar, Leeson replied quite evenly to a question from an A.P.-Dow Jones reporter curious about rumors that the Englishman was making huge purchases on the Japanese and Singapore exchanges on behalf of his London-based investment bank. Leeson coolly explained that he was "buying Nikkei futures here and selling them there." As simple as that, nothing out of the ordinary. One of Leeson's colleagues at another Barings office in Asia told Time of a phone call with Leeson two days later. "He sounded really weird on the phone, like...
...Brett Reed and the impressive throbbing bass lines of Matt Freeman, Armstrong and Fredriksen kicked off their set with their newest single, "Roots Radical." The audience, already more than warmed up by the opening sets of Waterdog and Daltonic, went nuts. The floor of Avalon instantly became a massive pit of flailing kids moshing their brains...