Word: winner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD, winner of the Tony Award for Best Play, takes a chip off the old Bard to construct a neo-Elizabethan existentialist drama. Brian Murray and John Wood are extremely adept as Tom Stoppard's nether heroes of flashing wit but blinking comprehension...
...written report of his findings was sent to the track stewards. Nearly 48 hours later, the stewards met, matched the specimen's number with that on a sealed envelope, and ripped the envelope open. Only then did they discover that the drugged horse was Dancer's Image, winner of the Kentucky Derby...
WHAT everyone was waiting for was Tonu Kalam's appearance as soloist in the Beethoven, Mr. Kalam, winner of the H.R.O. Concerto Contest, gave an astonishingly mature performance which was first-class in all respects. His tightly sealed conception projected a powerful sense of unity. It also preserved the concerto's familiar yet still voktile interplay of traditional restraints and puckish invention. Unhampered by technical difficulties, Mr. Kalam was the master of every phrase. By choosing not to extend dynamics to the upper limits, he achieved the ideal of every performing artist--the illusion of complete control with power...
Grooming a Winner. The idea for the Carmen Curler started rolling when a strapping 34-year-old Dane named Arne Bybjerg Pedersen answered a newspaper ad in 1962: a hairdresser was looking for a partner to help develop a new-style curler. Bybjerg, a former plantation manager in Malaysia, invested $5,500 and lost it all. But he kept his faith and teamed up with a Copenhagen engineer who offered his know-how and a basement workshop for experiments. The pair ran up $200,000 in debts before the Carmen Curler was perfected. A first order from Britain...
...owner himself looks like a winner, driving a yellow Rolls-Royce or piloting one of his five planes, his blonde second wife often at his side. Lise-Lotte Bybjerg, 22, never has a hair out of place: she uses her Carmen Curler set two or three times...