Word: ritz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...production, with its breathtaking subway set by Douglas Stein, appears more than anything else a valiant attempt to instill some life into what is essentially a theatrical museum piece. Director JoAnna Akalaitis has remained dutifully faithful to the script--down to Beckett's own mention of the Ritz cracker--even when the dialogue becomes an awkward partner to the massive visual impact of the subterranean set and Hamm and Clov garbed respectively as a Rastafarian and a grown-up street urchin...
...Culture Club, are being snapped up at a phenomenal pace. Some favorites have earned second press runs; 250,000 Trivial Pursuit (QuillMark) calendars sold out in the U.S. and Canada in a month, and Cabbage Patch Kids (Abrams) has been bought by 1.4 million doll lovers. Says Michael Ritz, promotions director of Abbeville Press, where eight of 15 calendars are sellouts: "It's just an amazing year...
...second glance you begin to wonder. The t-shirt depicts different types of sushi, the legs in the blue jeans shake incessantly, and the shoes rest on the floor or his suite in Boston's Ritz-Carlton...
Hotels are puttin 'on the Ritz...
...take Expos II. A full year's subscription for Richard A. Marius And a copy of Confi--he'll find it hilarious. To Andrew P. Deardorff, a room of his own; To Stanford, a place on the college world's throne. For freshman Anne Ueland, a suite at the Ritz; For Epps and Jack Reardon, the Dead's greatest hits. For Adams House dwellers, a squadron of tanks To ward off those men wielding scaffolds and planks. And Dean John B. Fox, with his fire-eating charms. Gets a new pair of earplugs to block out alarms...