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...houses with a south aspect, the sun's rays penetrate into the porticoes in the winter, but in summer the path of the sun is right over head and above the roof, so there is shade. We should build the south side loftier to get the winter sun and the north side lower to keep out the cold winds...
...mounted a different-looking version last fall that Lincoln Center pledged to bring to Broadway but then reneged on. With less than three months left in the season, Fran and Barry Weissler, who have won three Tony Awards by mounting star-package revivals like 1990's Fiddler on the Roof with Topol, decided to make this no-stars gay story their first new musical. Says Fran, a grandmother: "This was a big departure for us, our usual investors and our usual audiences. Half of the money in the show ((it cost $950,000 to mount, about a fifth...
Plainly put, stockholders are angry because their investments are increasingly bogged down by lackluster corporate earnings while the boss's pay goes through the roof. In Washington a growing chorus on Capitol Hill is , calling for some form of government intervention. And CEO compensation has become a presidential campaign issue for both parties. Vice President Dan Quayle recently criticized "some of these exorbitant salaries paid to corporate executives unrelated to productivity." Democrat Bill Clinton has called executive salaries "excessive...
...Jerry's has built a reputation for championing progressive causes, donating some of their profits to charity and promoting recyclable products. The show bus is partially powered by solar cells on its roof...
...turf was carved up in 1985, the U.S. was given the second biggest site. Architect Barton Myers produced a respectable design, but Congress dithered and finally appropriated a measly $13 million to build it. In the end, Myers' scheme, except for a few details, was dumped. There are no roof, no sides, no back, only a front wall consisting of cheap wire mesh nailed to cheap metal studs. Inside sit a pair of geodesic domes previously used in trade shows, two huge Peter Max murals that look like souvenir-shop curios enlarged to billboard size, and a homely suburboid house...