Word: vincents
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...Canada! Baseball was on the move in '92 -- toward chaos. The San Francisco Giants tried to move to Florida, then stayed put. Commissioner Fay Vincent tried to move the Chicago Cubs to another division, but instead the owners moved him out of his job. So it was apt that the "national pastime" look elsewhere for its "world champions." Canada's team, the Toronto Blue Jays (with, O.K., a roster of imported players), defeated the Braves in a six- game palpitator of a World Series...
...metaphor. Eliane (Catherine Deneuve), the owner of a rubber plantation, raises Camille (Linh Dan Pham), an orphan princess of Annam, as her own daughter. What could separate these two beautiful women? Only the nationalist uprising of the 1940s and the women's competing love for a handsome French officer (Vincent Perez), a kind of Lieut. Pinkerton in this Mademoiselle Saigon...
Perhaps so, but the high-profile maneuvering has heightened people's determination to beat the taxman and helped provide a boon to accountants. "We have seen a tremendous increase in inquiries on tax-avoidance strategies since the November election," says Vincent Vaccaro, a tax partner for the accounting firm Coopers & Lybrand. "There has been great interest in seeking to accelerate income into 1992, especially for those in the $200,000 bracket and above...
...triumphs over mediocre acting. In a cast of 23, the only strong playing comes from Dominique Serrand (also the play's director and coauthor) as Carne, coauthor Felicity Jones as leading lady Arletty and set designer Vincent Gracieux as screenwriter Jacques Prevert. Their brainchild is one of the foremost efforts this year on any U.S. regional stage. By a marvel of foresight, it will live further as the first-ever "import" into Yale Repertory Theater's season just after the Minneapolis run ends...
...Killed Vincent Chin?," a film based on the true story of a Chinese-American killed by two Detroit auto workers, will be shown December 3. Renee Tajima '80 produced the 1989 Academy Award nominee...