Word: shake
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...declare he was misunderstood. In fact, he had been found out: without the scaffolding of tragedy, his stagecraft was exposed as ramshackle, his creatures as puppets. Though producers drag Anna Christie out of the closet every decade or so (for Ingrid Bergman, Celeste Holm, Liv Ullmann), they can't shake the mothballs from it. "Isn't it terrible?" said Greta Garbo, who toiled nobly in a 1930 film version. "Who ever saw Swedes act like that...
...Strong), Colvin, 32, has paid beaucoup dues, working the Manhattan folk scene for more than a decade, in between gigs singing jingles and touring in Pump Boys and Dinettes. With Fat City she needn't worry about paying the rent. Its 11 songs are strong, tuneful, as hard to shake off as a wraith's visitation or a first love...
News of the editorial shake-up comes in the wake of a much-publicized controversy over an article cut from the January/February issue of the Review. Mark Stahlman, the writer of the article, "Why IBM Failed," said Harris has become a scapegoat for a journal marred by excessive faculty influence of editorial policy...
...result is a shake-out among Japan's 11 domestic companies, with the smaller firms suffering the heaviest impact. Their emergency measures include reductions in product lines, severe cost cutting, mergers with other automakers and drastic rethinking of business practices. In mid-December, sixth-ranked Isuzu announced that it was getting out of the passenger-car business to concentrate on its truck business. Second-ranked Nissan is slowly absorbing ninth-ranked Fuji Heavy Industries, the parent of ailing Subaru...
...scrimmage was only on the schedule as a post-winter-break tune-up, something to shake out the Crimson's cobwebs. Harvard had just three days on the ice coming into the Monday's game and needed to prep for a murderous stretch of games before the break for exams...