Word: previewed
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...brave return to the stage on what was to have been opening night of the year's biggest Broadway musical, Shogun, the Musical -- an $8 million extravaganza of sword fights and fireflies, earthquakes and snowstorms, based on James Clavell's best-selling novel and TV mini-series. In a preview two days before the scheduled opening, as he readied himself to sing the second-act number Death Walk, Casnoff was struck on the head and knocked to the stage by a 30-lb. scenic screen that broke loose from 18 ft. overhead. The performance was immediately canceled. Fortunately, if astonishingly...
...biggest music store in the U.S. Fast-growing HMV -- the initials stand for His Master's Voice -- is the largest chain in Britain, and has opened stores in Australia, Canada and Japan. Among its innovations are in-store music performances, video deejays and listening posts that enable customers to preview records. HMV, which is owned by British recording giant Thorn EMI, plans to open stores in Los Angeles and Boston next year...
...first two years. So we'll act accordingly." In other words, the "kinder, gentler" days are over. Henceforth the White House will begin stressing the old tried-and-true campaign issues: flag-waving patriotism and firm opposition to crime, drugs, hiring quotas and taxes. Bush gave a preview of what is to come two days after last week's election. "I'm girding my loins to go into battle to beat back the tax attempts that I think are coming," he said, "because I think the American people are fed up with that...
...matter how esoteric the technologies or lofty the management theory, the auto industry reduces ineluctably to a piece of hardware: a car with four wheels, an engine and thousands of little things that make you love it or hate it. For a sneak preview of Saturn, I went to GM's Milford Proving Grounds in suburban Detroit, where officials rolled out all three models: the standard sedan, the high-performance sedan and the sporty coupe. Since this was a secret mission, weeks in advance of the product launch, all traces of the company logo and the brand name were covered...
...Radcliffe Alumnae Association got a sneak preview of "R-A-D" at their biannual conference last week. Ople said that she wanted alums from across the country to hear the song in its revised form...