Word: spectacularity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when representatives of Price Waterhouse, which tallies the Academy Awards votes, put in their annual appearance at the Oscar presentations. But as this year's income tax deadline loomed, accountants were getting much more than their historic share of publicity, and a lot of it was bad. After a spectacular string of corporate failures and financial scandals in recent years, the industry that is supposed to audit company books and sniff out chicanery is under pressure from all directions...
Dylan Thomas lived 13 days past his 39th birthday and has been dead now for nearly 33 years. Yet the story of his spectacular rise and fall, recounted in several biographies, numerous memoirs and even a Broadway play that starred Alec Guinness, retains an eerie, timeless allure. Dylan's saga combines Orphic myth with cautionary tale. Depending on who does the reading, the hero was either an inspired, fragile bard who fell upon the thorns of life or an overpraised, cadging drunk who finally got what he had been asking for and deserved. Thomas' Collected Letters will fuel such disagreements...
...something spectacular with the arts each spring. It's a lovely spring thing to do," said Mimi Aloian, associate master of Quincy House, who is organizing the arts week along with Mary Jo Barron, Quincy's resident music tutor...
Though Brenneman's even pacing doesn't help Keshishian avoid the ups and downs of individual numbers which range from spectacular to stifling, his painstaking musical selection carries the show. Most of the songs seem appropriate, well-placed, almost meaningful. The projection of the lyrics on screens beside the stage helps the audience focus on the importance of what exactly the actors are mouthing but is admittedly distracting. With no dialogue, except for Brenneman's narration and one brief and painful incident of normal speech, the lyrics have to glue the show together and they...
...nationwide lottery. Separate drawings will be held for the 125,000 tickets--some free--available for five events: Operation Sail, a procession of tall ships up the Hudson River; a fireworks show; a Boston Pops concert; a sports celebration featuring stars like Olympic Champion Dorothy & Hamill; and an entertainment spectacular with the likes of Frank Sinatra and Lionel Richie. The lottery was the idea of David Wolper, producer of Liberty Weekend and of the opening and closing ceremonies at the 1984 Olympics. Order forms can be obtained for $1 by writing Liberty, P.O. Box 2021, Murray Hill Station, New York...