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While fans may be hard pressed to select their favorite between the two troupes, most critics have no problem. Having hailed Riverdance for rejuvenating the Irish jig, most reviewers have derided Lord, which has Flatley blasting onto the stage in puffs of smoke, as a sort of Siegfried and Roy with tap shoes. "There is only one word for it all," wrote Ismene Brown in London's Daily Telegraph: "embarrassing." But harsh comments do not deflate Flatley. "When there are 7,000 people in an audience cheerin', and there's one guy who doesn't like what I'm doin...
Amplifying a political angle that is only tangentially present was perhaps not the right move, especially when the larger elements of the play were not dealt with subtly enough. Perhaps the music by Roy Kosuge '99 was most emblematic of the production's problems: a few too many jarring notes...
...starters, the $10 billion-a-year figure is a red herring. David Adelman, tobacco analyst at Dean Witter Discover, believes the industry could get the figure down to $3 billion or less. But even at the higher figure, "it's not a lot of money" under certain scenarios, notes Roy Burry, an analyst at Oppenheimer & Co. No industry has greater pricing flexibility, and every nickel-a-pack increase generates $1 billion in annual pretax tobacco earnings. If the industry is worried about gouging customers, shoot, just issue more stock. Wall Street would pay through the nose for a liability-free...
...noted that her most famous vampire, Lestat, just happens to disappear at the end of Memnoch at the abandoned auto dealership where Straya is now. And Copeland, who missed no public relations classes, realizes that the presumably fictional vampire can be as big a draw as Siegfried and Roy...
...glad I did it now, but I think I will be in a couple of months," says Roy Astrachan '97, an Applied Math concentrator writing a thesis through the economics department...