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...Green Tree Financial Co. in St. Paul, Minnesota, is streaking toward the $100 million mark. Coss, whose company specializes in financing mobile homes, motorcycles and other big-ticket consumer items, walked away with $65.6 million in salary and bonus last year, leaving better-known titans like Sanford Weill of the Travelers Group and Jack Welch of General Electric in the dust...
...1970s, first around Boston, where she was a student at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, then in the lofts and hangouts of New York City's Lower East Side. When she joined her slides to a sound track of French torch songs, gloom pop and Kurt Weill--music where the balance between real and false pathos was always shifting--the whole thing took on a desolate wit. Here were some buzz-cut kids cocked for trouble. There was a woman sorting herself out in a washroom mirror. Here was another rumpled bed, with another rumpled boyfriend...
...last season of HRDC glory, at the Agassiz Theatre last weekend. (Needless to say, the HRDC standbys were there in force, hugging and kissing away; oh, where is our Hedda Hopper, our Liz Smith?) She sang ballads and love songs and novelty songs, slow songs and fast songs, Weill and Porter and Loewe and Bernstein, in addition to Gershwin and, what she said was her favorite (there's no accounting for such things), Sondheim. She strode on stage in front of the orchestra, futzed humorously with her red shawl, and broke right into "Nice Work...
...deLima did have, in abundance, was the willingness to make a show of herself, without which the whole evening would have been hopeless. She came down into the audience and pretended to berate an audience member (A plant? He bore it with too much grace not to be,) in Weill's wonderful song "I'm a Stranger Here Myself." That, incidentally, was the best performance of the night, allowing deLima to combine histrionics with an aggressive, loudish tone; in other words, to be operatic (it's no coincidence, I think, that Weill was also the only "serious" composer...
...STRIKING DEPARTURE FROM THEIR USUal fare of Mozart and Puccini standards, this year the Lowell House Music Society brought Kurt Weill's and Bertolt Brecht's "The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny" to the Lowell House dining hall. Although a number of small problems surfaced during the performance, the ultimate result was a powerful and provoking experience...