Word: webber
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tuesday the bulls broke loose again: the Dow Jones industrial average jumped 34.78 points, to record its best gain since Aug. 3; and more than 169 million shares changed hands on the New York Stock Exchange, making it the sixth heaviest trading day ever. Said Harry Laubscher, a Paine Webber market analyst: "The bears had Thanksgiving, the bulls Christmas." After the big jump, profit takers moved in, and the market dropped for three straight days. Nonetheless, the Dow Jones average ended the week at 1198.98, up 23.07 points...
...additional 1.42 billion shares will go mainly to British institutional investors, with another $280.8 million worth going to the U.S., where traditional wariness of foreign stocks will, in this case, be cast aside. Says Donna Jaegers, a telecommunications analyst at Wall Street's Paine Webber: "People feel at home with the British...
...superficial level Melnick's music is reminiscent of the Tim rice-Andrew Loyd Webber "Broad way Rock" that influenced shows like the "Rocky Horror Picture Show," but closer listening reveals the music's deeper roots in more sophisticated jazz styles, Melnick said "I wanted to avoid the ellcbe of quoting from Chinese music, but I wanted none of the tunes to be self-consciously commercial...
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...Lloyd Webber's Starlight Express, a homage to trains, with lyrics by Richard Stilgoe, is (surprise!) the season's hottest ticket. It is also just about a total bust. For this multimedia combo of Rollerball and The Little Engine That Could, Designer John Napier has ramped and revamped the huge Apollo Victoria Theater, allowing the young cast room to roller-skate through three levels of the audience. But all the amplified sound and whirling energy cannot hide the show's vacuity. The story line is repetitive and inconsequential; Trevor Nunn's staging is an elephantine parody...