Word: summered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some bosses think they can elicit brainstorms from their workers simply by plying them with coffee and doughnuts. But Bruce Katz, president of Rockport Co., a shoe manufacturer in Marlboro, Mass., thinks a little sun and wind surfing are a much better inducement. This summer he is spending a reported $15,000 a month to rent Plaisance, a 20-room chateau by the sea in Newport, R.I., that he has dubbed Camp Rockport. In groups of a dozen, each of his 220 employees takes a car pool to the mansion for two days of sports and shoptalk with the boss...
...tragedy of Flight KT 328 began shortly after 7:00 a.m. London time. As the 131 passengers settled back in their seats, many were probably thinking of their pending escape from England's blustery summer for the sunny Greek island of Corfu, the plane's destination. At 7:07, the twin-engine jet pulled away from the loading gate and taxied to the northeast end of runway...
...Lonely Norwegians with whisky bottles lie down on their family graves in Our Prairie Home Cemetery to talk to the dead about the old country. Keillor's folk confront mainstream America with beer and trembling. They are still wagging their heads and clucking their tongues over Father Emil's summer replacement. Golfing Father Frank proclaims of his martini at a backyard party, "Dry. Mmmmm. What did you do? Just think about vermouth, for Christ's sake...
RECOVERING. Mikhail Baryshnikov, 37, Soviet-born premier danseur and artistic director of the American Ballet Theater; from surgery on his right knee, which was operated on in 1983 and reinjured last month during a 29-city U.S. tour with his own small summer traveling troupe; in New York City. He is expected to be sidelined at least through September...
Williamstown is the summer camp of the American stage. Since the inaugural in 1955, it has attracted established stars to work with esteemed journeymen and expectant beginners. Everyone in American theater, it seems, has sojourned there, and over the years nearly 200 company members have earned awards for stage, screen or TV work. Among them: 1985 Tony Winner Stockard Channing, Oscar Winners Rita Moreno and Christopher Walken, Emmy Winner Nancy Marchand. What lures them to Williamstown? A casual atmosphere, the chance to experiment without commercial pressures and the sylvan pleasures of the Williams College campus in the Massachusetts Berkshires. This...