Word: knightings
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...There is no fistfighting anymore," complained a frightened neighbor of one of the victims. "If they have a confrontation, they go get their guns." Mayor David Dinkins vowed that his city "would not roll over" to the killers. But at week's end 14-year-old Shamel Knight was gunned down in a dispute over a moped...
...softies when appraising their bosses. But there were few dry eyes at last week's staff meeting after Philadelphia Inquirer executive editor Eugene Roberts Jr., 58, announced that he would retire from the paper that he had transformed from a second-rate daily into the crown jewel of the Knight-Ridder chain. "There were lots of eyes that were swimming and voices that broke," says reporter B.J. Phillips. "Everybody is here because...
Roberts says he is leaving to travel and teach, but several staff members contend that he is exiting primarily because he was worn down by his ongoing tug-of-war with Knight-Ridder officials. Worried about flat circulation (522,000) and flagging advertising revenue (despite respectable pretax profits), the corporate managers tightened Roberts' purse strings. This spring he lost a page of space on weekdays and twice that amount on Sundays. He also had to report to a publisher newly appointed to oversee both the news and business operations, a combined position that Roberts vigorously opposed. The biggest challenge facing...
...debate about exactly how live the New Kids show is (is it real, or is it lip-synched?), and quite a bit more about how slickly the New Kids have been packaged and sold. The financial phenomenon of the New Kids is part of the total experience. As performers, Knight and his brother Jonathan, 21, Wood, 21, Donnie Wahlberg, 20, and Joseph McIntyre, 17, are as sleek, nimble and nifty as a pair of Air Jordans. The audience, overwhelmingly white female, is invited to enjoy their moves and their music. But their stage show, which has charm and vitality...
...Kids resent imputations that their show is canned and that they continue to play Pinocchios to Starr's funky Gepetto. Says Jon Knight: "I think we have a lot of spontaneity, if there is such a word." Beefs Wahlberg: "People don't give us credit. Janet Jackson sat down with her producers and came up with the concept of Rhythm Nation. That's the same thing we did with our album." If there is a unifying concept behind Step by Step, it is one of forthright -- indeed, brazen -- commercial calculation, which is one thing that sets the Kids apart from...