Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...playing on both screens. Now the company he ran, AMC Entertainment, operates 218 theaters (and 2,729 screens) in 23 states and several countries including Spain and Japan. "Our goal is to say to the customer, 'We love ya,' " he said in 1996. "We want to make your stay pleasant...
...little boy who saluted is lost. Adopted by the world at a funeral, the funeral, that day in 1963, he grew up into the handsome, adored, underachieving creature of the tabloids who, with a heaping portion of the Kennedy charm, blithely steered that over-scrutinized life into something pleasant. He founded a magazine, not a particularly brilliant one, and by all accounts has had a grand time running it. He dated actress Daryl Hannah and then married a model-like fashion-industry darling, and finally all the girls in New York had to stop daydreaming about catching...
...group of relatively unresponsive TF's becomes an unfortunate reality, but for someone to be actually touting the size of the biggest classes--and claiming that professors are simply willing and able to have you come to office hours no matter what the level of the course--seemed a pleasant fiction. This was just a small section of the tour, alongside a discussion of writing seminars and thesis advising and other truly responsive pieces of the undergraduate career, but the concept of boasting class girth brought on a giggle...
...time when Broadway's musical well has run so dry that recycled revues like It Ain't Nothin' but the Blues and Fosse compete for Tonys, it comes as a pleasant shock to realize that Stephen Sondheim has had an unproduced show in his trunk for more than 40 years. The young composer wrote Saturday Night in the mid-'50s, but a planned Broadway opening was scuttled when the producer died. It was mounted for the first time by a small company in London in 1997. Now Chicago's Pegasus Players has given the musical (with two new songs added...
...because the calculations which led to this trend are so subjective--and have been made easier by a ballooning endowment--Knowles is not tightly constrained in seeking this pleasant outcome...