Word: shows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Movies are show; plays are tell. Here's one difference. In Beth Henley's 1984 off-Broadway hit The Miss Firecracker Contest, a seamstress named Popeye Jackson explained that as a child she "used to make little outfits for the bullfrogs that lived out around our yard." In this expansive adaptation, Popeye (Alfre Woodard) displays one such frog, cunningly coutured in a nurse's gown with matching stethoscope. Ah, the glamorous realism of the cinema! It's cute...
...Canada, Japan, Britain, West Germany and Italy -- will assemble in Paris for a summit. What kind of image will France present? On the surface, at least, that of a united nation celebrating its glorious past with the hoopla of a spectacular Bastille Night parade and sound-and-light show down the Champs Elysees. Already, merchants are hawking underwear decorated with little guillotines. French television is reveling in soap-opera love affairs between 18th century aristocrats and commoners. Villages across France are dressing up their summer festivals in blue, white...
Frenchmen appear ambivalent about their revolutionary forebears. Polls show that the most revered figure of the era is now the Marquis de Lafayette, who ultimately broke with the Jacobins and fled the country. After a televised re- enactment of Louis XVI's trial, only 27% of French viewers favored beheading the hapless King. One French poll even found that 17% of the country wants the return of the monarchy. Seeking new heroes, Mitterrand said last week that he will place in the Pantheon, France's national mausoleum, the remains of the Marquis de Condorcet, an influential leader of the National...
Well, not everyone can. In addition to show-business types, many of the buyers are youthful entrepreneurs who started out in their garages and now control high-tech companies worth tens of millions of dollars. The rest of the money comes from overseas. "I've sold houses to the royal family of Saudi Arabia," says Nelson, who glides around town in a yellow Rolls-Royce Corniche. "Also to the emissary for the Sultan of Brunei, two crown princes in Europe and three Japanese billionaires whose names I can't pronounce." Many foreign buyers are looking for a stable investment, since...
...employees who had stood by Drexel during its two-year legal ordeal, in which the firm was investigated for stock fraud and other allegations. Outraged brokers shouted down Drexel chief executive Frederick Joseph when he fielded questions about the sale over the firm's coast-to-coast intercom. "You show a lot of loyalty," a disgruntled employee said later, "and what you get back is 'Don't let the door...