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...buyer for the poorly performing outfit and after two years was on the verge of liquidating it when Del Vecchio said he'd buy it himself. Why? "It was a gut feeling more than anything else," he says. So Del Vecchio left day-to-day operations at Luxottica to strike out on his own. Within a few years, the hemorrhaging at Casual Corner had stopped?and Del Vecchio was looking to expand into additional retail concepts...
...designed by Julia E. Rozier ’08) was simpler than the costumes, consisting of double-sided backdrops that portrayed a basic forest and a castle. The backdrops moved even during the action, usually accommodating the blocking well but with a few occasional glitches.Friedman managed to strike a balance in portraying an amusing but earnest Arthur. However, Friedman’s appropriate sincerity in his portrayal of Arthur underscored a lack thereof in the interpretation of Emmeline’s character. Crutchfield performed the comedic aspects of the role well, yet displayed too great an awareness of its inherent...
...immediate reasons. The humanitarian crisis unfolding in Somalia is now on a par, in numbers and acuteness, with Darfur. The U.N. says 1.5 million people need assistance, of which a mere 60,000 are getting it. And Somalia is of significant strategic interest. Pirates based there regularly strike ships heading to and from the Suez Canal, and attacks have rocketed this year. The conflict in Somalia - which pits Ethiopian and T.F.G. troops against Somali rebels, backed by Eritrea - also has the potential to ignite a larger regional war that engulfs the Horn of Africa. Last week, Ban Ki-Moon expressed...
...third quarter: Pizzotti has all kinds of time and finds Matt Luft for a 28-yard strike. It's the first Luft catch of the afternoon. First and ten at the Penn...
...lightning strike twice? The Producers, Mel Brooks's musicalized version of his 1967 film comedy, was an out-of-the-blue, ain't-Broadway-grand surprise when it opened in the spring of 2001. A septuagenarian funnyman adapts one of his old movies for the stage, writes the songs himself, indulges all his vulgar-vaudevillian comic impulses, and shows the Broadway pros how to do it - what could be more thrilling? And so, when Brooks went back to his film archives to perform the same trick with Young Frankenstein, his horror-movie spoof from 1974, the buzz on Broadway...