Word: roof
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Worst of all. America's money miseries have become the ghoulish flipside to the Good Life. For cash-squeezed consumers by the millions, shopping on credit for everything from a new suit of clothing, to cars, kitchen appliances, even a roof over one's head, is increasingly painful. Indeed, by the common consent of economists, towering interest rates have done more than any other single factor to drive the U.S. into a recession that still threatens to push unemployment to a post-World War II high...
Briggs Cage's new interior features retractable bleachers on all four walls, a new skylight roof, refurbished offices and locker rooms, and, of course, the basketball floor...
Since then, Sholom Aleichem has suffered a worse kind of obscurity: success. The ethnic narcissism of Fiddler on the Roof, based on his Tevye stories, has drowned his oeuvre in a chorus of If I Were a Rich Man and Sunrise, Sunset. The World of Sholom Aleichem attempts to whisper where Fiddler bellowed, to reclaim the writer from the ripoffs. But, as the Yiddish proverb has it, you can't pull two hides off one ox. The musical used Aleichem to carry the tunes; the material is now too depleted to carry an evening...
...Francis Cabot Lowell, a Boston merchant, created the first modern textile factory to combine yarn spinning and cloth weaving under one roof. He traveled to Britain to study established operations, took on some partners and raised $400,000 in venture capital from family and friends. Lowell then sold his cloth through a few large wholesale outlets in New England. He added to his profits by selling copies of the machines he developed to make the cloth. By 1817 his business had annual sales of more than $34,000, and Lowell paid his investors a dividend...
...dance, the likely parallel is Choreographer Jerome Robbins, 63, of the New York City Ballet. Robbins' popular credentials are impeccable-a string of Broadway hits that includes the dances for On the Town, West Side Story, Gypsy and Fiddler on the Roof. Yet his first love has always been ballet, and during a career stretching back to 1944, he has created such modern classics as the footloose Fancy Free, the silent Moves and a brilliant gloss on Afternoon of a Faun. Last week at Lincoln Center, in a meeting of two kindred spirits, Robbins came face to face with...