Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...firms hold several attractions for Pickens. Many are rich in assets that include plentiful oil reserves. At the same time, their stock prices are often so low that the firms may be worth more if they are dismantled and their divisions sold separately than if they are kept together...
...fuss over fops and froufrous just as a painful national recession was setting in. Muffie Brandon, her social secretary, was joking when she spoke of a "tablecloth crisis" at the White House, but the new concern for elegance was real. The First Lady had some of the Reagans' rich friends, among others, pony up $800,000 to redecorate the private rooms at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, then got $209,000 worth of china donated, and let opulent Architectural Digest have exclusive photo rights to the spruced-up interiors. She maintained arrangements with her favorite couturiers to give her gowns to wear...
...Francis Albert," became an almost monthly White House visitor. When her aides suggested she invite Opera Star Frederica von Stade to perform at a state dinner in 1982, the unsure First Lady ordered them first to "check it out with Frank." Nancy also saw quite a lot of her rich bachelor friend Jerry Zipkin, a full-time Manhattan partygoer whom she has called "a modern-day Oscar Wilde." Says one of her former aides: "There is a little element here of Louis XIV's French court and les precieuses --the affected ladies. She had a certain liking for witty, amusing...
Both versions are strongly influenced by the 1940 Kirov production by Leonid Lavrovsky, who worked closely with Prokofiev. This is the composer's best ballet music: rich, copiously dramatic, with a sunny spiritual radiance in the love scenes. Cranko set it first for the ballet of La Scala in 1958 and four years later for his own fledgling troupe, the Stuttgart Ballet. He was able to show off his inexperienced dancers without exposing their deficiencies with anything too intricate. That approach well suits the Joffrey youngsters, whose average...
...with its clowns and gypsies and with its great duel scene, is easily the best, and the Joffrey performs it with sweep and charging bravura. Elsewhere there are difficulties, some of which should disappear as the company settles into the work. Right now the dancers have absurd ideas of rich life in the Renaissance. The men strut and pose, the ladies arch their backs so radically that they look poised for a back flip. An exception is Gerel Hilding, whose Tybalt has genuine authority. Perhaps unwittingly, Stuttgart Choreologist Georgette Tsinguirides, who set the ballet on the Joffrey, made the Montagues...