Word: successful
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After being threatened with law-suits by customers across the country angry at the increasing difficulty of getting on-line, America Online (AOL), the world's largest on-line service, has found that success has its price...
...Transplants from Broadway like Grease, Smokey Joe's Cafe and Neil Simon's Laughter on the 23rd Floor are side by side on the West End with Andrew Lloyd Webber extravaganzas. The Royal National Theatre has just revived Richard Eyre's landmark 1982 production of Guys and Dolls, whose success inspired a string of British revivals of classic American musicals. Even so unfashionable, and quintessentially American, a pop figure as Al Jolson has gained new life on the West End: Jolson, a musical tribute to the 1920s star, has been running more than a year...
...tree in full blossom, with a broken trunk. The big scenes are somewhat muted (Marjorie Yates' Linda and Mark Strong's Biff are good if unmemorable) but the small ones achingly poignant--like the mix of awe and desolation with which Willy marvels at next-door neighbor Bernard's success: "Your friends have their own private tennis court?" What emerges most clearly in this version is Miller's critique of capitalism: Willy is less a tragic figure brought down by his flaws than the pawn of a system that sells a dream, then cannot deliver...
...fascination with Gates lies chiefly in his financial success and less in his achievements, which history will prove are of negligible importance. The key issues that face mankind will still be decided by human beings, not computers. The alleged power of the Web and the Internet are nothing more than a high-tech yuppie myth promoted by a relative minority. MARK TERRILL Wacken, Germany...
...Republic," reports TIME's White House correspondent J.F.O. McAllister on the eve of President Clinton's fifth State of the Union Address. "People really do gather 'round the television and listen to the President detail his plans for the country." McAllister says Clinton will try to equal the success of last year's address, delivered amid a series of government shutdowns, which immediately turned the tables on Congressional Republicans. Clinton's declaration then that "the era of big government is over" became his most memorable line, while then-Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole effectively nipped his own campaign...