Word: staging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...officials privately predict the price tag for the war could total . as much as $2 billion by the end of 1990. Officials also warn that if the Colombian Supreme Court, as expected, strikes down President Barco's power to extradite criminals to the U.S., he may be forced to stage a coup to continue his fight...
...been tourists on the Boardwalk gawking at horses diving into pools and typewriters bigger than elephants. On the day in 1976 when the state referendum passed, they danced in the streets. Today Atlantic City has enough class to bring Cher, the queen of camp, back to the concert stage, enough savvy to have harvested $2.73 billion in the last year from bettors in its casinos, and enough allure to be the most popular destination in America. But the benefits of this resurrection have been unevenly shared. "This is a town noted for taking suckers," says Thomas Carver, president...
...1920s, but the libretto that he wrote for Kurt Weill's most ambitious opera, The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (1930), seems to be set on a wildly imaginary Florida Gold Coast. But to Jonathan Miller, the gifted British director who was commissioned to stage a new Mahagonny at the enterprising, young Los Angeles Music Center Opera, there could be only one locale. "Hollywood," he said before last week's opening night, "seemed to be a living metaphor...
...think Dr. White is a very fine person who behaved with great integrity at every stage," Toll said...
During the intermission, a woman from WBZ-TV--one of the concert sponsors--came on stage. Instead of asking the crowd to volunteer to help the area's homeless, she merely thanked them for coming...