Word: premiers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Boston Ballet is hosting the New England premier of Dracula, a new full-length ballet by Houston Ballet Artistic Director Ben Stevenson and has launched one of the most aggressive ad campaigns the ballet has seen in recent memory. And the ads, buttons and posters live up to their promise--Dracula is one of the biggest spectacles to hit the Wang in years...
...receive status as a permitted group. The silent sit-in was by far the boldest protest in Beijing since the butchering of the pro-democracy movement almost exactly a decade ago. And the regime's response was just as stunning. Rather than attack, it granted leaders an audience with Premier Zhu Rongji...
That includes the Beijing protest. A deputy for Li, who was in Australia last week, told TIME, "He had nothing to do with the demonstrations in China. They were spontaneous." Indeed, on the day of the protest, a visibly annoyed Premier Zhu received four delegates from the sect and reportedly demanded, "Who is your leader?" "We are all leaders," one replied. Zhu handed the group off to his Complaints Bureau for judgment on the issue of the group's official status and its other concern, the arrest of five members at an earlier regional demonstration...
Broadway--who needs it? It's a mausoleum for foreigners and fogies. It's got no stars, no premier playwrights, no float-out-of-the-theater magic. Some days that may be true. But last Monday a few dozen eminences from movies, TV and even the stage convened at the Broadhurst Theatre for a little old-fashioned dazzle. The occasion was a benefit called "The Playwright's the Thing," an evening of skits and play excerpts by three superb American comic dramatists: Christopher Durang, Terrence McNally and Wendy Wasserstein. The event, of which TIME was the presenting sponsor, raised money...
...There is still much to be done to make our system one of the premier public higher education systems in the nation," they wrote...