Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...traumatic series of events that uncovered crippling deficits (first estimated at 2 million now at 9.1 million), deposed Mankiewicz and other top management officials, and threw the network into eleventh-hour loan negotiations with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to meet the payroll. While the past several months have shed light on the internal problems of NPR, they have also offered some telling commentary on the fate of a public enterprise in a commercial nation...
...been sweltering this summer as temperatures have soared into the 90s. But the hottest spot on the Continent last week had to be the small West German city of Bayreuth, site of the annual Richard Wagner opera festival. Inside a broiling, stifling Festspielhaus, an elegant first-night crowd shed its tuxedo jackets along with its customary solemn decorum as it watched, with growing disappointment, impatience and finally anger, a new production of Wagner's 16-hour, four-evening German myth, Der Ring des Nibelungen, by two British knights, Director Sir Peter Hall and Conductor Sir Georg Solti...
...Japanese ideals of exalted beauty: the former based on symmetry and minute gradations of fixed etiquette, the latter on irregularity and "natural" grace. Sen No Rikyu (1521-91), greatest of the tea masters, established chanoyu as a kind of psychic enclave in which warlord, samurai, priest and scholar could shed the burdens of rank and power by refreshing themselves at the well of nature. A developed Japanese form of Rousseau's "natural man," living in harmony with a world he has not made, is to be found in the teahouse and the culture it epitomizes: neutral colors, simple gestures...
...ideas and new models are helping the company to shed its old image. In the past year Ford has introduced ten new car and truck lines. Total development cost: $3 billion. The company has taken a risky course with its new models by moving away from prevailing industry styles. Instead of just turning out near clones of General Motors or Chrysler cars, Ford is developing models with radically rounded contours, much like its own successful European cars. Says Chief Designer John Telnack: "We didn't want to stay with the herd." The danger, though, is that Ford...
...with his father on several legs of the European tour, and will join him in America. They live, with decided privacy and some semblance of serenity, in a house overlooking Lake Geneva in Switzerland. There are certainly rock stars who are richer, but no tears of sympathy should be shed over the Bowie savings account. His new record company, EMI America, paid him between $10 million and $17 million to sign on for five albums. Exact figures are hard to come by?no record company wants its other clients to renegotiate for what the star attraction is getting?...