Word: tower
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...manager, his style is demanding but not abrasive. One colleague says that in 25 years he has never heard Telling raise his voice. That style is well known to store managers. For the past two years Telling has been the link between headquarters in the 110-story Sears Tower, the world's tallest building, and 55 field executives and has been noted for tightening management control. Says Telling: "With five different territories, we were accused of being five different companies. Strong people were running the territories and strong people ran headquarters. Getting corporate directives carried out in the field...
...unit set can be a house or room or a neo-Bayreuthring that rotates on its axis to create changes of scene. The new Rigoletto (cost: close to $300,000, neither cheap nor extravagant) is built around a leaning tower that suggests not so much Pisa but Babel and, at times, the land of Hansel and Gretel. At the start it represents the palace of the Duke of Mantua. For the second scene it becomes the house where the jester Rigoletto has hidden, or so he thinks, his daughter Gilda from a menacing outside world. And so on. The tower...
...kids move through the countless metal doors. Past the place where visitors have the insides of their shoes checked for contraband, past the detectors, the armed guard in the tower, the massive barbed-wire topped wall. To the right is the maximum end, where brutal conditions recently precipitated yet another hunger strike by inmates. Reach-Out participants head to the left, to what, in a maximum security prison, is euphemistically known as the "minimum" end because prisoners are not locked in their cells all day and prevented from taking part in programs. (Euphemism has taken hold in the prison bureaucracy...
...plot is par for the musical comedy course: Girl meets hunchback, hunchback falls in love, girl resists seduction by various poets and archdeacons, girl and hunchback meet in the bell-tower to live happily ever after. In between there are enough subplots and romantic interludes to keep the audience pleasantly amused, waiting for the bad guys and good guys to have it out in the final scene. So far so good. But Borowitz's manic idea somehow falters on the way to the cathedral, as the characters find themselves spouting an assortment of intolerable puns, weak jokes about SAT scores...
...Leverett House Committee held an emergency meeting on Wednesday night and recommended that a 24-hour guard be posted in the tower area. In the wake of the meeting, Kenneth R. Andrews, master of Leverett, arranged for the police department to station an additional student security guard near the tower...