Word: valhalla
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...while the candidates are plugging their pet formulas for neighborhood valhalla, from the construction of neighborhood shopping centers to selling parking garges, the mayor has stuck to his guns on the issue of downtown development...
...reau Ring is perhaps even more effective on TV than in the opera house. What is sacrificed in scenic grandeur, such as the looming pile that is Valhalla or Hunding's chilly glass-paned palace, is gained in unorthodox but expressive detail that may be overlooked in the theater. In Wotan's sorrowfully reflective second-act monologue in Die Walküre, Bass-Baritone Donald McIntyre stands before a full-length mirror; tearing off the patch that covers his lost eye, Wotan searches for his soul and finds only an emptiness that foreshadows the twilight of the gods...
DIED. Edward F. Gibbons, 63, chairman and chief executive officer since 1978 of the F.W. Woolworth Co.; after a brief illness; in Valhalla, N.Y. Gibbons strove to revive the stodgy company with more detailed budgeting, more specific planning and fewer stores that catered exclusively, in his words, to "old birds like myself." Only last September, in a decisive move to streamline and, he hoped, strengthen the business, he resolved to close all 336 outlets of the flagging Woolco discount chain (cutting the company-by 30%) and to sell Woolworth's British subsidiary...
...includes the sums forthcoming from 330 theater parties that have signed up for special blocks of seats. The show cost a princely $4 million or so to mount. It cost $2.5 million to strip-mine the interior and stage of the Winter Garden Theater and construct a cats' Valhalla of a nocturnal dump. Cost of restoration when Cats eventually vacates: an additional $1.5 million...
Naturally, the sounds of an upstaged plot line can scarcely be heard in this debater's Valhalla. Tarleton's daughter Hypatia (Jeanne Ruskin) is engaged to a simp named Bentley Summerhays (Keith McDermott), but she is restive and parched for adventure-which drops out of the sky when an airplane crashes into the greenhouse...