Word: impresario
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kosher students seeking a change in cuisine will be doomed to local salad bars until spring, says Law Professor and deli impresario Alan Dershowitz...
...impresario is all but ended in the commercial theater. Practically everything that comes to Broadway nowadays is funded by committee and imported wholesale from somewhere else. Off-Broadway, however, the American theater's boldest, most ambitious, quirkiest, most pedantic and at times most infuriating showman holds sway more forcefully than ever. Joseph Papp has built, at the New York Shakespeare Festival, a personal barony more than an institution. Although he sometimes describes his $14 million annual operation as the biggest "regional" theater in the nation, its six-theater complex and staff of 125 stand in the shadows of his outsize...
...caucus process has become an industry in itself, which is somewhat troubling. State leaders see a gain from big media attention. Des Moines Restaurant Impresario Guido Fenu figures to do an extra $20,000 in business because of the political groupies who now inundate the Savery Hotel. James Barnes, chief political reporter for the National Journal, sought out a "typical" Republican home in Des Moines to witness the reaction to the debate of the candidates a fortnight ago. When he arrived, a crew from the C- SPAN network was in the living room, and one from a local station soon...
Next week's summit shapes up as one of the most interesting human encounters in years. It is going to be one "great communicator" against another chelovek s darom obshcheniya. Gorbachev has nudged Reagan aside as the central actor on the world stage. The Soviet impresario is young and just beginning his reign. Reagan is old and phasing out. Gorbachev has also become part of our politics: his 54% approval rating in the U.S. Gallup poll is higher than that of most American officials. In the secret files that are being sent to the President by his experts, Gorbachev...
...talking toys are cuddly, cute or even particularly appealing. Galoob's Mr. Gameshow ($129) features Gus Glitz, a fast-talking, lacquer-haired impresario who stands atop a blinking, bleeping game board and hosts homemade variations on Wheel of Fortune and other word games. With microphone flailing and jaw flapping, Mr. Gameshow dishes out play money and bad jokes with equal largesse: "Nice jacket. Who shot the sofa...