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Unfazed, Hall’s next goal was worldclass swimming, but that stalled at an early...
Local folk and bluegrass freaks who missed Friday's show should not despair: this spring's folk lineup features a suprising number of worldclass masters. This year's Women in Folk Rock show at the Somerville Theater is March 12, and Northern Lights will be playing April 30 along with The Austin Lounge Lizards and Ranch Romance, also at the Somerville...
...last survivor of a wave of young, reformist big-city mayors elected in the 1960s, White initially brought an adventurous spirit to his aging, industrial home town. Armed with ambitious plans to build a "worldclass city," he sparked a downtown renaissance. It seemed too good to last, and it was. Bloody street clashes in the 1970s over court-ordered school busing were followed in 1980 by necessary but ineptly handled budget slashes. His reputation as a slick manager damaged, White went on the defensive. He indulged in a regal life-style that earned him the epithet "King Kevin...
This year Timberland made another advance on the advertising front with a poll of "worldclass sailors" that claimed to show overwhelming preference for its shoe. Crowed the headline: 151 WORLD-CLASS SAILORS PROVE SPERRY TOPSIDER IS LOSING ITS GRIP. Meanwhile, Timberland is happily handing out reprints of a Playboy "Fashion Guide" interview in which Conservative Columnist William F. Buckley Jr., a transatlantic sailor who always tries to put his right foot forward, calls Timberland's product "the world's most comfortable shoe." To prove that Timberland's popularity cuts across political lines, the accompanying letter notes that...
Festival President James W. McLamore, founder of Burger King, cast his ambitions even beyond the U.S., predicting that the three weeks of music, dance, drama and film would constitute a "worldclass event of world-class quality, with elements so rich and varied that it would have international appeal." State and local governments chipped in half of the $4.8 million budget, and new works were commissioned from a dozen or so major playwrights, composers and choreographers, including Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, Lanford Wilson, Gian Carlo Menotti, Lukas Foss, Ned Rorem and Geoffrey Holder. To give the festival a festive look...