Word: stockholm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people of Lawrenceburg, Tenn. (pop. 15,000), have one word they want to holler at Electrolux, the Stockholm-based appliance maker: Nej! The term (pronounced nay) is Swedish for no and expresses the intense local resentment toward Electrolux's two-month-old effort to buy Murray Ohio Manufacturing, a Tennessee bicycle and lawn-mower manufacturer that employs 2,900 workers at its Lawrenceburg plant...
...family doomed to heroism and folly established its author's international reputation. Among the book's magical properties was the power to transform a once obscure Colombian journalist into the recipient of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature. Garcia Marquez, of course, published other works along the way to Stockholm, including three novels, several collections of stories and dusted-off samples of old newspaper reporting. But none of these achieved the glitter and scope of his most triumphant narrative, which concluded, after all, with a warning that the lightning of inspiration does not strike twice: "Races condemned to one hundred...
Josephson says Bergman was directing all over Stockholm in both amateur and professional productions. "I was 15 or 16 and he was 20 or 21. He wanted to be experienced as soon as possible," Josephson says. "And then suddenly, he became the leader of a small theater in the south of Sweden." There the two cemented their friendship and collaboration...
Josephson began his career as a stage actor in 1945, working under Ingmar Bergman and later moving to Stockholm's Royal Dramatic Theatre, where he eventually replaced Bergman as the theatre's head...
...history of musical theater. With one exception, the ill-starred Jeeves of 1975, Lloyd Webber has scored an unbroken string of triumphs over the past 15 years. His most financially successful show, Cats, has had 19 productions in cities ranging from Budapest to Tokyo to Sydney to Stockholm; eleven of them are still running. Cats has racked up total box-office receipts of more than $425 million...