Word: staging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Corporate raider Carl Icahn, who owns 17.3% of Texaco, has tirelessly hectored its top management for 1 1/2 years with charges that the giant oil company is poorly run. Icahn has repeatedly threatened to stage a hostile takeover, and even tried unsuccessfully to replace Texaco's directors in an old-fashion proxy fight late last spring. Finally, after 14 hours of peace talks, Icahn agreed last week to sign a standstill agreement that prevents him from buying any more stock in the company or trying to wrest control for another seven years...
Salenger says she also hopes to work on the Broadway stage, but a slight problem has prevented her from auditioning...
...Believe it or not, I have stage fright," Salenger says. "Ever since I began with camera work, I've been terrified in front of an audience. But I'll deal with that later...
...half-year-old TIGP, which was started by freshmen in the fall of 1986, bills itself as basic improv theater, meaning that its members don't discuss specific plots before they go on stage; they take groups of three words or themes as their points of reference. Friday night the actors in the 16-member ensemble will spoof topics from TV talk show announcers to soap operas to docudramas, and Saturday night's Chez Cliche should feature, you guessed it, tried and true murder mystery themes...
Clinton is a former high school English teacher who became involved with comedy after members of a writing class she was taking dared her to take her humorous words to the stage. Since then, she has produced three albums: Making Light (1982), Making Waves (1984), and Kate Clinton Live at the Great American Music Hall...