Word: rizzo
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...delicate social ecology couldn't last. Broadway declined. Hard drugs arose. Damon Runyon's Times Square became Ratso Rizzo's. In the 1970s, 42nd Street was overrun with porn shops, junkies and bus-station hustlers. Traub adroitly explains how a combination of municipal power and rising real estate values succeeded in driving out the rot. In a new world of tall towers and chain stores, the Disney company played both beauty and the beast--corporate pioneer in the once skanky wilderness but also chief symbol of the bland mass marketplace that the Square is today. It's not just...
...this was not Broadway, where she played feisty, fun-loving Betty Rizzo in a Grease revival. This was not her G-rated TV chat show, which ran for six years and won her the sobriquet the Queen of Nice from Newsweek. This was New York State Supreme Court, and last week O'Donnell was testifying as the defendant in a $100 million suit brought by Gruner+Jahr USA, publisher of the short-lived monthly Rosie. The charge, as articulated by G+J CEO Daniel Brewster Jr.: she "walked away from her obligations" after a battle over editorial control...
...double agenda: to win the case and to charm, amuse and bulldoze the largest audience she has had since her show went off the air. Nonetheless, she took direction well and bore up under a stern cross-examination, never sniping or exploding. Briefly, she dabbed her eyes--less Betty Rizzo, more Camille. It was a Tony-worthy, possibly career-saving performance...
...hiring a professional, consumers are left to consult books, websites or knowledgeable friends and neighbors. Almita and Jim Ranstrom, retirees in their 70s who live on Vashon Island near Seattle and run a computer club, refer their members to The Little Network Book by Lon Poole and John Rizzo and invite people over to look at their home network. "Some people are still intimidated by their computers," says Almita. "It's not that what you're doing is hard; it's all the jargon...
...Mobilize, Phillips is once again doing it all, acting as writer, performer and co-producer with Carmen Rizzo. This time, though, he is with a record label (Cambridge-based Rounder Records Group subsidiary, Zoë) and has brought back the funky Grant Lee Buffalo vibe and use of production machinery. An amalgamation of psychedelic folk and bluesy rock, Mobilize captures both the epic and the intimate, sometimes in the same breath. The 12 tracks glide together seamlessly, combining textured, atmospheric instrumentals with mildly hypnotic guitar melodies. Phillips’s honey-coated, slightly haggard voice is alternately plaintive and playful...