Word: rossing
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...also walked through a Houston oil refinery, where the falling price of oil is doing more harm to Texas than Santa Anna ever did at the Alamo: state tax revenues from oil could fall by $1 billion this year. After presenting a Winston Churchill Award to Dallas Businessman H. Ross Perot for his "bold imagination, pioneering spirit and dynamic leadership," Charles left for California. Despite his princely welcome, he will not be around for the high point of the yearlong, $130 million observance. That comes March 2, Texas Independence Day, more important to Texans than, well, the Fourth of July...
...Peterson have all formed film- production companies. Also active in Hollywood is the first voice from the new Chicago theater to emerge into national prominence, Playwright David Mamet, who won a 1983 Oscar nomination for The Verdict and in 1984 received the Pulitzer Prize for his play Glengarry Glen Ross. Mamet's longtime collaborator Greg Mosher, who as artistic director of the Goodman was perhaps the most influential force in shaping Chicago's theater sensibility, now directs the two long-closed theaters in New York City's Lincoln Center. His first production, a pair of Mamet one-acts, was widely...
WHAT WAS MOST disturbing about yesterday's "Butting Heads" debate in this column ("What Is So Exciting?") was not that Mr. Ross found himself "mildly disgusted." Nor that Mr. Zucker refuses to feel guilty. What was most disturbing was that yet another discussion about (sexism) has chosen for its subject the annual swimsuit edition of Sports Illustrated...
...again, it's the context that's significant. It's true, as Mr. Ross says, that SI's swimsuit issue is pornography. It's also true, as Mr. Zucker says, that SI is relatively harmless. The fact remains that this single photo spread is getting blown far out of proportion by both sides (and perhaps, therefore, this response is doomed to futility...
Time was in Texas when a man of letters meant a guy who was on the track and football varsities. But two years ago H. Ross Perot gave Texas education a kick in the pants by leading the drive for the controversial no-pass, no-play rule for student athletes. Now he has given Texas letters an incalculable shot in the arm by presenting the University of Texas at Austin with a rare early English literary collection of 1,105 volumes and 250 manuscript groups. Included are first editions of Donne, Milton and Shakespeare, as well as the first book...