Are we pushing our entertainments to be brutal, or are those entertainments pushing us to be?
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They also support an underlying theme of the exhibition — that today's popular entertainments have been shaped by so many of the popular entertainments of the 19th century.
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Moscow travel agencies offer these kinds of clients special entertainments.
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Our popular entertainments for teenagers have become more overtly scrutinizing.
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The deal values Merlin Entertainments (MERLY) at £4.7 billion ($6 billion).
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Yet in going private, Merlin Entertainments is returning to its roots.
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Dubai's index fell 0.5 percent as DXBE Entertainments sagged 2.0 percent.
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DXB Entertainments slumped 13 percent and Emaar Properties fell 0.8 percent.
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The last IPO on the DFM was by DXB Entertainments DXBE.
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But so many other questions that we appreciate your entertainments this afternoon.
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Giveaways and several Halloween-themed entertainments will be featured throughout the game.
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Depp has made quite a name for himself starring in children's entertainments.
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Yakuza 0 doesn't gloss over the prurient entertainments of the time, either.
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Theme parks operator DXB Entertainments lost 5.1% after temporarily suspending park operations.
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Dubai's last IPO was by DXB Entertainments, which began trading in December 2014.
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She leaves behind a magazine career, steady paychecks, the entertainments of city life.
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DXB Entertainments, the theme park operator for Legoland and Motiongate, was down 6 percent.
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Still, I'm not ready to call the Recording Academy entertainments beacon of inclusive hope.
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In the 1920s, his mother recalled that her children's "little entertainments" brightened their evenings.
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Subjectively, both "Incredibles" and "Solo" are good, solid summer entertainments, derived from established franchises.
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DXB Entertainments will continue paying interest on the debt as per the original agreement.
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Big Hollywood entertainments tend to have simple messages—in this case: Friendship is great!
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We often like to reimagine our favorite retro entertainments as if they were happening today.
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One of the world's more expensive live entertainments just now is "Hamilton: An American Musical".
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Amusement park operator DXB Entertainments, which has not yet reported quarterly earnings, rose 1.8 percent.
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But such entertainments are only part of the fun at this annual museum fund-raiser.
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He associated novels with improbable romances, or mere entertainments; "Pamela" was intended to be instructive.
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The Dubai index fell 2977 percent as theme park operator DXB Entertainments lost 20.1 percent.
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And you may just be carried along by its featherbrained entertainments, and watch all eight episodes.
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Elsewhere, Dubai's index closed 0.6 percent higher with DXB Entertainments rising 4.5 percent in active trade.
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Merlin Entertainments has approached SeaWorld Entertainment about a possible investment, as first reported yesterday by Bloomberg.
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Dubai's index barely moved with Emaar Properties rising 0.5 percent and Dubai Entertainments up 1.7 percent.
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It becomes more melodious, and the Venetian operas, as they become public entertainments, have more dances.
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But DXB Entertainments, pared gains and fell 0.6 percent ending its three session of strong gains.
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The British Library is showcasing its Evanion Collection materials in Victorian Entertainments: There Will Be Fun.
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DXB Entertainments first quarter loss widened to 215.7 million dirhams ($58.73 million), it reported in May.
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DFW's addiction on entertainments is most obvious in how we consume TV in the age of streaming.
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Magic lanterns, along with dancing, theater, and other entertainments, could offer a distraction that was also educational.
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"The business delivered a robust performance in 2015," said Merlin Entertainments' CEO, Nick Varney in a statement.
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But Katzenberg could have gone back even further to the days of Dickens and his serialized entertainments.
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The difference from spectator entertainments, of course, is that people are actually dying in the real world.
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But many take it the way people often take entertainments — as a cartoonish version of something real.
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Merlin Entertainments (MERLY) operates theme parks and other attractions in 25 countries, drawing 67 million visitors a year.
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Dubai's index ended nearly flat as theme park operator DXB Entertainments fell 1.0 percent in relatively heavy trade.
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And so, Goodman gleefully suggests, was a man associated in later eras with highbrow theatrical entertainments: William Shakespeare.
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Nine-tenths of traded shares declined with theme park operator DXB Entertainments, the most active stock, losing 1.0 percent.
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For young people they are a source of something authentic and intriguing when their electronic entertainments start to pall.
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Still, Dubai's index stock index closed 0.4 percent lower, with theme park operator DXB Entertainments finishing 2.7 percent lower.
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With the last of winter behind them, locals can indulge in numerous entertainments that herald the arrival of spring.
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Between other jobs, they produced entertainments for their immigrant friends, giving Mr. Aznavour an early introduction to the business.
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If you want vapid, soul-crushing, slapdash, utterly incomprehensible and ill-conceived entertainments, that's the place to find them.
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At their entertainments there is no conversation that is agreeable; there is no modesty, no attention to one another.
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One of the suspects told police he was working as a Lego builder at Merlin Entertainments, which owns Legoland Florida.
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The most heavily traded stock, amusement park operator DXB Entertainments , pulled back 1.1 percent after surging 13 percent this year.
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The two 12-year-old female beluga whales currently live at Changfeng Ocean World in Shanghai, owned by Merlin Entertainments.
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Those are all fantastic entertainments, and yet none of them have the glitz and glamor associated with a major blockbuster.
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Travel and leisure companies were the top fallers, with Merlin Entertainments, TUI and Intercontinental Hotel Group down 4.9-7.2 percent.
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Merlin Entertainments is a British company that operates more than 120 mostly theme attractions that are scattered throughout 25 countries.
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Though Reagan red was a staple for her daywear, for the 56 official state dinners and numerous private entertainments Mrs.
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Dubai's index fell 0.8 percent, with DAMAC Properties slipping 2.6 percent and amusement park operator DXB Entertainments losing 2.4 percent.
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Travel and leisure companies were the top fallers, with Merlin Entertainments, TUI and Intercontinental Hotel Group down 4-6.5 percent.
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Another less condescending explanation is that the public favors these sorts of down-market entertainments specifically because elitists disfavor them.
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The consortium will pay £4.55 ($5.75) per share for Merlin Entertainments, a 14% premium over the stock's closing price on Thursday.
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DXB Entertainments said the scope of its strategic review will be adjusted and an update will be provided in due course.
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The show has retained an impression of seat-of-the-pants, frantic improvisation, such as one associates with local shoestring entertainments.
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Loss-making theme park operator DXB Entertainments climbed 2.3 percent, pulling further away from a two-year low hit on Sunday.
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The Dubai index gained 0.6 percent as amusement park operator DXB Entertainments rose 1.6 percent and builder Arabtec climbed 1.9 percent.
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Since launching on a phased basis in late 2016, DXB Entertainments has struggled to meet its initial targets for visitor numbers.
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SeaWorld Entertainment — Both Reuters and Bloomberg reported that U.K. theme park operator Merlin Entertainments had approached SeaWorld about a potential bid.
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DXB Entertainments lost 2792 percent, as Ramadan and hot summer weather may reduce footfall at its Dubai hotels and theme parks.
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I tried to invert everything associated with the 3D animation I'd seen, from Pixar children's entertainments to first-person shooter games.
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"Apartments, dachas, mansions, entertainments, everything is there, but something is missing," Mr. Navalny says close to the end of the video.
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The enormous stump of a sequoia (one of many striking elements of David Gropman's sets) becomes a makeshift stage for entertainments.
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The consortium will pay £4.55 ($5.75) per share for Merlin Entertainments, a 14% premium over the stock's closing price on Thursday. 4.
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And increasingly these kind of multi-platform entertainments are things that Fox will be looking to roll out with other tentpole releases.
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Travel and leisure stocks surged 1%, the most among major European sectors, after shares of Madame Tussauds owner Merlin Entertainments jumped 14%.
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Merlin Entertainments was among the biggest decliners on the STOXX 600, after HSBC double downgraded the shares of the Madame Tussauds-owner.
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UK-listed theme park operator Merlin Entertainments may be planning something similar with SeaWorld, by trying to dislodge its Busch Gardens division.
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Mr. Keaton is good company, for one, and villainy just doesn't work in entertainments like this, which can't risk turning us off.
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BEN BRANTLEY Broadway is our east coast Las Vegas, really, an importing house for tried and true entertainments with brand recognition value.
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She seems more interested in the story's high points—its surefire entertainments—than in the putrid plantings growing through that kitchen's cracks.
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That's a fair summary of Blackstone's deal to help take Legoland owner Merlin Entertainments private at a 230 billion pound equity value.
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Dubai's index added 0.2 percent, its fourth straight session of gains, with Emaar Properties rising 1.5 percent and DXB Entertainments adding 0.9 percent.
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The primary producer of primarily Black-casted entertainments is Tyler Perry, whose movies are often treated as little more than a laugh line.
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Merlin Entertainments, the British-listed theme park operator, may be planning something similar with SeaWorld by trying to dislodge its Busch Gardens division.
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DXB Entertainments said the decision came after its board in August 2018 mandated a strategic review of its future development plans and capital deployment.
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VTB Capital said in a note that it estimated an 4173 percent probability that DXB Entertainments would replace Arabtec in MSCI's emerging market index.
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"The Smiler will reopen for the 2016 season which starts on 19th March," a Merlin Entertainments spokesperson said in a statement emailed to CNBC.
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Leisure company Merlin Entertainments fell 5.5 percent after a downgrade from JP Morgan, but Tesco managed to climb higher despite the overall market weakness.
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From serious magazines like Popular Mechanics and from goofy entertainments like "The Jetsons" we learned that life in the future would be perfectly convenient.
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Advent recently bought engineering firm Cobham while an investment consortium led by Blackstone won control of Madame Tussauds owner Merlin Entertainments over the summer.
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He directed six features in 1932 and in 1933, most of them rowdy entertainments featuring fast-talking tough guys and equally cynical fallen women.
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It's true that Krampus runs were curtailed during the war, but the same could be said for other public entertainments during times of scarcity.
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Alan Tudyk—beloved for his supporting turns in Firefly, Dodgeball, A Knight's Tale, and other screwy, delightful entertainments—has always been an animated character actor.
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Nick Varney, CEO of Merlin Entertainments, which operates multiple Legoland and other theme parks, says there is a "growing disparity between haves and have-nots".
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This idea, the corpses of the last hundred years of conflict ignited by the Great War, obviously haunts us even in our most popular entertainments.
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But for those who prefer their illusions homemade and their entertainments without layers of technological polish, "Bianco" presents what might be called the artisanal alternative.
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Castle Rock, like much of our politics and many of our entertainments these days, draws its power from the dark-energy grid of American nostalgia.
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He was also "a writer and speaker on subjects as varied as conjuring, literature, con games, sense perception and unusual entertainments," according to his website.
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Dubai's index rose 0.8 percent as theme park operator DXB Entertainments, the top performer of the day, jumped 6.2 percent; trading volume was moderate, though.
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But it ingeniously recreates that most venerable of entertainments, the magic show, in a form ideally suited to the second decade of the 21st century.
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DUBAI, May 31 (Reuters) - Former chief executive of Arab Media Group Mohamed Almulla has been appointed CEO of theme park operator DXB Entertainments, effective immediately.
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Merlin Entertainments was the biggest riser, up 5.7 percent after saying that it still expected to deliver full year profit in line with current expectations.
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Police trucks and uniformed officers have taken the place of the carousels, concerts and street entertainments that typically fill Moroccan cities during the summer months.
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A source with knowledge of the situation said Blackstone and CVC's experience of a partnership in British group Merlin Entertainments made them a good fit.
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The FTSE was helped higher by the likes of Rolls-Royce and Merlin Entertainments, although no individual stock gained more than 3% on the day.
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In Dubai, the index edged up 0.6 percent, led by amusement park operator DXB Entertainments, which was the most heavily traded stock and gained 3.1 percent.
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DXB Entertainments, the most traded stock, climbed 0.6 percent, heading for its fourth straight session of gains ahead of the theme parks opening later this month.
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Mackenzie, who joined Greene King from Merlin Entertainments in May, is hopeful of attracting pub goers during the cricket World Cup which finishes in mid-July.
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Merlin Entertainments is trying to boost visitor numbers to its Alton Tower theme park in Britain after an accident last year left four teenagers seriously injured.
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Dubai's stock index closed 0.6 percent higher with DXB Entertainments, formerly known as Dubai Parks and Resorts, adding 0.6 percent and Emaar Properties gaining 1.4 percent.
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We need to raise our children to regard with horror those images, games, advertisements and entertainments that reduce women to nothing but sex objects or idiots.
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Among his favorite entertainments, she added, was driving late at night along the corniche in St.-Tropez with the top down on his convertible Rolls-Royce.
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I refer to those ritualized entertainments that air and arrange our nastiest fears, while scrupulously honoring quaint and orderly narrative traditions, soothing even as they frighten.
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Some £3.8bn-equivalent of debt backing the take-private of UK theme park and attraction operator Merlin Entertainments is also due to hit the market shortly.
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The chief ingredients are suspense and resolution, and we tend to regard both forms, exceptions notwithstanding, as unserious entertainments, no matter how well engineered they are.
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Merlin Entertainments has been affected by Brexit fluctuations in domestic tourism in the UK and a serious accident on a rollercoaster at Alton Towers in June 2015.
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At the time of his arrest, he told police he was employed as a Lego builder for Merlin Entertainments, which owns Legoland Florida, among other Legoland locations.
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Dubai's index was flat although some of the beaten-down stocks of the last few months continued recovering gradually; amusement park operator DXB Entertainments rose 1.2 percent.
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Amusement park operator DXB Entertainments fell 2.6 percent after reporting its third-quarter loss more than doubled from a year earlier to 284.1 million dirhams ($2271 million).
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Amusement park operator DXB Entertainments fell 2.0 percent after reporting its third-quarter loss more than doubled from a year earlier to 284.1 million dirhams ($77.4 million).
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Dubai's index rose 0.6 percent as loss-making theme park operator DXB Entertainments climbed 2.3 percent, pulling further away from a two-year low hit on Sunday.
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Britain's Merlin Entertainments said a "spate of terror attacks" in the U.K. and unfavorable weather over its key summer trading period had hampered the business in 2017.
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Amusement park operator DXB Entertainments rose 2.2 percent after it said it would obtain a subordinated loan of 700 million dirhams ($191 million) from majority shareholder Meraas.
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Ultimately, these types of entertainments aren't going to go away — at least according to the investors and entrepreneurs who are creating the companies that are building them.
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It's become trickier for pop entertainments to gloss over historical traumas, which may be why so many modern colonial struggles involve deep space or an alien invasion.
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That would leave plenty of time for either of these stroll-through entertainments, each of which adults and children alike could spend an hour or more enjoying.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Six Flags will receive $7.5 million from the U.S. company's Dubai partner DXB Entertainments, which has ended plans to build a Six Flags theme park.
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"A selfie-taking office worker won't be participating in buzkashi, cock fighting, or any of the other traditional entertainments," says Ahmad Shuja, a Human Rights Watch researcher there.
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Vargas was not employed by Legoland but was previously employed at the parent company Merlin Entertainments at a model building facility which is located at an offsite location.
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DXBE Entertainments, due to open some of its theme park facilities at the end of this month, was the most heavily traded stock; it closed 1.3 percent lower.
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Among midcaps, a stand-out faller was Madame Tussauds-owner Merlin Entertainments which slipped 7% on its worst day since last October after a double downgrade by HSBC.
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Dropping out of the large-cap index after their market capitalisation fell are medical technology company Convatec , Madame Tussauds owner Merlin Entertainments and defence and engineering contractor Babcock.
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Merlin Entertainments shares fell 8 percent after it said Legoland's performance over the summer failed to meet its expectations, and warned of cost pressures from labour and regulation.
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Nostalgia is a perpetual allure for those who would dream up a less complicated past, who would love to lose themselves in gauzy memories of beloved childhood entertainments.
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I don't know that I saw myself in most anime characters, though it certainly didn't hurt that they tended to feature far more female protagonists than Stateside entertainments.
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We dug into the expansion in this feature, with a briefer on Africa's fairly nascent VOD market and input from Netflix and African digital entertainments platforms IROKOtv, Buni.
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Merlin Entertainments' Legoland Parks fell short of revenue expectations over the summer and the tourist attraction company also highlighted rising labor costs in a trading update in October.
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The line-up of UK deals includes £3.8bn-equivalent of loans backing an acquisition of UK theme park operator Merlin Entertainments, which generated 31% of revenue last year.
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Gauri Lankesh Patrike mostly jettisoned the literary entertainments and ideological unclassifiability that characterized her father's paper and evolved into a single-minded political broadside against the right wing.
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The top 290 composite dropped to an average of 21 in November as investors piled into deals, including Merlin Entertainments' £2.193bn-equivalent buyout loan, prior to year end.
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It's about how to live in a world where these sorts of action-movie entertainments seem, increasingly, to influence politics and policy, until the two swallow each other.
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The movie contrasts the more staid and "innocent" entertainments of the wealthy classes in a post-war country with the coming heated revolutions in politics and in culture.
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He has also served as CEO of Kingfisher and Greencore Group, as well as a non-executive director at companies including British American Tobacco, Merlin Entertainments and Reckitt Benckiser.
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Blackstone and Lego's founding family on Friday took Merlin Entertainments private in a $7.5 billion deal, in one of the biggest private equity deals in Europe in recent years.
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Blackstone and Lego's founding family last month took Merlin Entertainments private in a $7.5 billion deal, in one of the biggest private equity transactions in Europe in recent years.
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Blackstone and Lego's founding family last month took Merlin Entertainments private in a $7.5 billion deal, in one of the biggest private equity deals in Europe in recent years.
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Few dystopian entertainments dare viewers to consider just how hard it is to live in a dystopian society and not become complicit in its crimes, even as you suffer.
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The warnings have showed no sign of slowing in October, with park operator Merlin Entertainments, engineer GKN , workspace group IWG and another support services company, Interserve, all downgrading forecasts.
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Dubai's index fell 20.3 percent although some of the beaten-down stocks of the last few months continued recovering gradually; amusement park operator DXB Entertainments edged up 26 percent.
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Like many social scourges, it has frequently been the subject of voyeuristic entertainments, heavy-breathing narratives in the tradition of the great Jackies of lowdown bestsellerdom, Susann and Collins.
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Just before its release, in an interview with Empire magazine, the director opined that Marvel superhero movies don't really qualify as "cinema" — wonderfully crafted entertainments, maybe, but not art.
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The major entertainments on display are hitting the sauce and the search for love, as love and all the tipsy complications provide the ongoing drama in these people's lives.
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Madame Tussauds-owner Merlin Entertainments advanced 4.5% after hedge fund ValueAct urged it explore a go-private deal, claiming the move could boost the company's value by around a third.
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Madame Tussauds-owner Merlin Entertainments advanced 4% after hedge fund ValueAct urged it explore a go-private deal, calculating the move could boost the company's value by around a third.
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Blackstone and Lego's founding family on June 28 took Merlin Entertainments private in a US$7.5bn deal, in one of the biggest private equity deals in Europe in recent years.
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Dubai's index edged up 0.1 percent as amusement park operator DXB Entertainments, the most active stock, added 2.3 percent, rebounding for a third straight day from a month-long downtrend.
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DXB Entertainments owns Dubai Parks and Resorts, a group of theme-parks in the south of Dubai including the Hollywood-inspired theme park Motiongate and a Lego-themed water park.
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With its tone changing on a dime, "Sweeney" is an elaborate sendup of music-hall entertainments that needs rhythmic precision to have its impact; here, ensembles too often feel blurry.
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Deals • Blackstone and the Danish family that controls Lego are reportedly poised to buy Merlin Entertainments, the owner of Legoland and Madame Tussauds, for 6 billion pounds, or $7.6 billion.
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But Colin Minihan, the writer and director of this stylish horror film, understands that what really matters in such genre entertainments is not what it is, but how it's done.
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Like those movies, and like his later, lesser entertainments ("The Village"; "The Happening"), "Split" is all plot, an ingenious (and also ridiculous) conceit spun into an elegant ribbon of suspense.
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There was little direct market impact seen from the attack, although shares of theme park operator Merlin Entertainments were off around 1 percent and the top losers on the FTSE.
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It was something that my husband, Larry, and I discovered we had in common: We had both, all through our childhoods, been taken matter-of-factly to see adult entertainments.
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Barnum's hyperbole, his willingness to bend the truth when promoting his entertainments, his artful manipulation of the press, never mind his participation in outright hoaxes, invite comparisons with Mr. Trump.
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An interactive guide lets you explore other New York entertainments that would have been accessible by rail or omnibus at the time (including Barnum's American Museum and a daguerreotype portrait studio).
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Tussauds deal: The Danish family behind Lego has partnered with Blackstone to take Merlin Entertainments private in a deal that values the owner of Madame Tussauds at £1007 billion ($25 billion).
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Against many pundits' expectations, the oldest form of modern mass-communication has held up well amid the din of television, streaming, video-gaming and all the other entertainments of modern life.
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That the bouts are staged entertainments rather than eruptions of emotional or political violence sets Milan's collages outside of the realms occupied by the rest of the art in the show.
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In January, a Merlin Entertainments-owned park, Alton Towers, announced it was to open a space-themed virtual reality roller coaster named "Galactica" this April, in which passengers wear VR headsets.
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Dubai's index fell 0.1 percent in very thin trade with tourism-sensitive companies trading lower; theme parks operator DXB Entertainments was down 1.33 percent and Emaar Malls Group fell 0.8 percent.
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Shares in Merlin Entertainments were the biggest fallers, sliding a further 3.3 percent as brokers cut their target prices on the stock following the firm's profit warning in the previous session.
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Or maybe most of us will sign up for everything and get our new, inexhaustible 21st-century entertainments from a few megabusinesses, kind of like we did in the 20th century.
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Dubai's index rose 26 percent as theme park operator DXB Entertainments, which has been hit by disappointing visitor numbers at its parks, climbed 2779 percent after announcing a new management structure.
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DUBAI, March 26 (Reuters) - DXB Entertainments has reached a deal with creditors to restructure 4.2 billion dirhams ($1.14 billion) in debt, the Dubai-based leisure and entertainment operator said on Monday.
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Another top performer was Britain's Merlin Entertainments, which rose 9.4 percent after the attractions group said it had a "record" 66 million visitors worldwide during 2017, up 3.5 percent from 2016.
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Winter's Panopticum, 95 & 97 Oxford Street [Waxworks] notice (©British Library Board)Victorian Entertainments: There Will Be Fun continues at the British Library (96 Euston Road, London) through February 12, 2017.
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British pub chain Greene King Plc said on Tuesday Nick Mackenzie, an executive from leisure group Merlin Entertainments Plc, will take the company's helm this spring, replacing Chief Executive Officer Rooney Anand.
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Among stocks, Merlin Entertainments rose 5% after activist shareholder ValueAct urged the Madame Tussauds owner to go private and said the company could be valued about 20% more than its current price.
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Dubai's main index was up 0.1 percent as DXB Entertainments added 3.4 percent after MSCI upgraded the stock to its United Arab Emirates standard index, effective at the close on Nov. 30.
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She was the first in a long chain of "African entertainments"—Zip the Pinhead, the Duck-Billed Ubangis, the pygmy Ota Benga—on whose backs Barnum and his successors rode to glory.
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Last month, the park's owner Merlin Entertainments admitted breaching health and safety laws over the incident and is expecting a hefty fine when it appears at Stafford Crown Court on May 20.
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Unlike most binge entertainments, Happy Hour doesn't seek to divert our attention from everyday life, but to focus on it intently—to such an extent that it begins to rival life itself.
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The owner family will now become active in brand-related activities, including the group's stake in Merlin Entertainments, operator of the six Legoland theme parks, and in Lego Education used in schools.
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Dubai's DXB Entertainments, which has rebounded in the last couple of days from a two-year low, may continue to attract interest after saying it had appointed Mohamed Almulla as chief executive.
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DXB Entertainments, of which Qatar Holding is also a shareholder, said the debt restructuring includes a three-year moratorium on principal repayments and covenant testing as well as a revised repayment schedule.
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Mid-sized stocks dragged Dubai's index 0.7 percent lower with amusement park builder DXB Entertainments dropping 2.0 percent and Dubai Financial Market the only listed bourse in the Gulf, falling 1.7 percent.
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Both the Winter Gardens and the tower were bought by the city in 2010, but are operated by private companies like Merlin Entertainments, which owns Madame Tussauds, Legoland and the London Eye.
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But lately Cirque du Soleil has tried its hand, off and on, at narrative material, notably the current Broadway production "Paramour," a more or less traditional musical spliced with circus-style entertainments.
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In the period between Walt Disney's death in 1966 and the ostensible renaissance signaled by "The Little Mermaid" (1989), the Walt Disney film studio released dozens of fair-to-middling children's entertainments.
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The prime-time show is a still-breathing creation of Arledge's era — slickly produced entertainments that blend sports that viewers generally watch little of in non-Olympic years with features and profiles.
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Merlin Entertainments, which acquired the Tussauds brand in 5003 for $1.9 billion, reported lackluster attendance last summer to its attractions in Britain, which include the London Eye, after terrorist attacks in London.
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DXB Entertainments said in a statement on Tuesday it will pay $7.5 million to Six Flags as part of a settlement agreement with both sides agreeing there would be no further claims.
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In Dubai, DXB Entertainments rose by 1.7 percent after the company said its visitor numbers in the first half of 2018 were up 4573 percent compared to the same period of last year.
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The outsider figure who comes into the political sphere and tells it like it is — only to have Americans realize how right he is — is a long-running type in vaguely liberal entertainments.
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LONDON, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Britain's Merlin Entertainments has sold its Australian ski resorts, Hotham and Falls Creek, to Vail Resorts Inc for about A$174 million (95 million pounds), it said on Friday.
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I am torn between praising it as visionary (and also a great deal of fun, what with entertainments including a voluble animatronic savant) and reporting it as a mugging to the taste police.
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Legoland operator Merlin Entertainments moved 14% higher on the mid-cap index after agreeing to be acquired by the investment vehicle of Lego's founding family and Blackstone in a 455-pence-a-share deal.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A British court fined Merlin Entertainments 5 million pounds ($6.5 million) on Tuesday over a rollercoaster crash at its Alton Towers theme park in June last year that seriously injured five people.
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LONDON, Oct 16 (Reuters) - Britain's Merlin Entertainments , operator of tourist attractions such as Madame Tussauds, forecast 2018 results in line with market expectations as underlying revenue growth stepped-up in its peak summer season.
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Among midcaps, a stand-out faller was Madame Tussauds-owner Merlin Entertainments which slipped 5.2% and was on course for its biggest one-day fall in two months after a double downgrade by HSBC.
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Sedaris's description of his last encounter with Tiffany — beautifully lobbed at the reader from left field — describes her waiting for him at the stage door after one of his rock-star-like literary entertainments.
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They included a £2.193bn-equivalent loan backing Blackstone and Lego's founding family's acquisition of UK theme park operator Merlin Entertainments and a £997m-equivalent loan backing the acquisition of British car auctioneer BCA Marketplace.
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Elsewhere, Dubai's index lost 0.6 percent, with amusement park operator DXB Entertainments down 3.9 percent after reporting net losses widening to 287.4 million dirhams in the first quarter, only its second quarter of results.
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But "Dames at Sea" ultimately founders on our familiarity, not with the genre it plays with like a cat's toy, but with the long history, since its creation, of similar simulations of old-school entertainments.
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But next to the much more visually and narratively elaborate entertainments that make up the Marvel Cinematic Universe — or even compared with other snarky anti-superhero movies like "Deadpool" — "Venom" feels like pretty weak poison.
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A British court has fined Merlin Entertainments 5 million pounds ($6.5 million) over a rollercoaster crash at its Alton Towers theme park in June last year that seriously injured five people, ITV reported on Tuesday.
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LONDON, Feb 16 (Reuters) - Merlin Entertainments, the operator of Sea Life centres and Legoland theme parks in Europe, North America and Asia, named Anne-Francoise Nesmes as its new chief financial officer from Aug. 1.
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In Dubai, the main index lost 0.50 percent as real estate firm Deyaar fell 3.1 percent and DXB Entertainments plunged again 3.5 percent after reporting a 1.12 billion dirham ($305 million) loss for last year.
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Theme park operator DXB Entertainments, which fell 2.7 percent on Monday after reporting a 1.12 billion dirham ($305 million) loss for last year, plunged a further 7.8 percent to a record low in heavy trade.
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Let's assume that Rob Reiner made a movie peopled with disagreeable characters to transcend the feel-good clichés of the nostalgic family entertainments for which he's known with a more realistic film about contemporary issues.
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Its Puritan roots surely played a part, he said, and as far back as 1750, theater was "Banned in Boston" by the Massachusetts General Court ("An Act for preventing Stage-Plays, and other Theatrical Entertainments").
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Many individual issues are faring even worse — yields on 2027 subordinated bonds from Legoland owner Merlin Entertainments have shot up to nearly 10%, up more than 6 percentage points in three weeks, according to Tradeweb.
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And for those in need of retrogressing even further, a host of family entertainments spring up every summer in the West End, cartoon-colored affairs that speak the jolly and exaggerated language of Christmas pantomimes.
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LONDON, Feb 25 (Reuters) - British visitor attractions group Merlin Entertainments is to be prosecuted for breaching UK health and safety laws after a rollercoaster crash at its Alton Towers theme park in June last year.
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DXB Entertainments received only 1.5 million visitors in its Dubai Parks and Resorts theme parks in the first nine months of 2017, putting it behind its target of attracting 6.7 million visitors in the whole year.
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"The truth is a weaker pound is good for British industry, it's good for exports, it's good for tourism," said Nick Varney, CEO of Merlin Entertainments, the world's second-biggest visitor attractions group behind Walt Disney .
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"Priyanka Chopra is a global super star who is loved and admired by fans all over the world for her talent, intellect, beauty and compassion," said Christine Haughney, regional head of marketing at Merlin Entertainments, plc.
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"We have cooperated fully with the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) throughout their investigation while continuing to support those who were injured in the accident," a Merlin Entertainments spokesperson said in a statement, emailed to CNBC.
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LONDON, Aug 2 (Reuters) - Madame Tussauds-owner Merlin Entertainments said on Thursday it was too early to tell whether visits to its London attractions were recovering after the impact of last year's militant attacks in Britain.
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As it turns out, the original "Ghostbusters" is one of those durable pop entertainments that can support the weight of not only a lesser follow-up (the 1989 sequel "Ghostbusters II"), but also a gender redo.
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Legoland operator Merlin Entertainments jumped 14.2% to 451 pence on the mid-cap index after agreeing to be acquired by the investment vehicle of Lego's founding family and Blackstone in a 455 pence a share deal.
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It's as if Mr. Maxwell had elicited the unspoken thoughts that throb within a vintage western, with his characters giving voice to the feelings you may experience when watching such entertainments in an abstracted, melancholy mood.
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Merlin Entertainments, the world's second largest visitor attraction operator who owns the Staffordshire-based park, has looked into a number of new safety measures, cost-cutting options and new attractions since the event, which impacted visitor numbers.
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LONDON, March 1 (Reuters) - Britain's Merlin Entertainments , operator of tourist attractions such as Madame Tussauds waxworks, met reduced guidance with a 13 percent rise in 2017 core earnings and said it was confident about its future prospects.
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Legoland operator Merlin Entertainments moved 14% higher to 450.1 pence on the mid-cap index after agreeing to be acquired by the investment vehicle of Lego's founding family and Blackstone in a 455 pence a share deal.
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LONDON, Feb 25 (Reuters) - Merlin Entertainments reported flat profit for 2015, held back by a drop in visitors to its Alton Towers theme park in Britain after a rollercoaster crash in June left four people seriously injured.
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Top of the STOXX 600 index was Merlin Entertainments , up 4.5% after activist shareholder ValueAct urged the Madame Tussauds owner to go private and said the company could be valued about 20% more than its current price.
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Among its projects, Meraas launched its DXB Entertainments subsidiary, which has built a theme park and water park complex on the outskirts of the city to try to attract hundreds of thousands of additional tourists to Dubai.
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Leaders of more than a third of Britain's biggest companies said last month Brexit would put the economy at risk, though the boss of Merlin Entertainments said leaving the EU would not harm his tourist attractions firm.
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"You may be able to follow the celebrities and get up close with them on Instagram and stuff like that," said Christine Haughney, the regional head of marketing for Merlin Entertainments, the parent company of Madame Tussauds.
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Whatever it may say about these bleak times, true-crime documentaries (in feature film and series form) have proven among the most bingeable of entertainments, drawing us ever deeper into their webs of suspects, clues and whiteboards.
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Whatever it may say about these bleak times, true-crime documentaries (in feature film and series form) have proven among the most bingeable of entertainments, drawing us ever deeper into their webs of suspects, clues and whiteboards.
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Some of the public to private deals on the launchpad include a £20133bn financing backing the buyout of car auctioneer BCA Marketplace and £22013bn-equivalent of loans backing the acquisition of UK theme park operator Merlin Entertainments.
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Elsewhere, investors have until Wednesday to commit to a £2.193bn-equivalent loan backing the buyout of UK theme park and attraction operator Merlin Entertainments by an investment vehicle of Lego's founding family, and private equity firm Blackstone.
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UK theme park and attraction operator Merlin Entertainments is expected to launch £3.8bn-equivalent of loans in the coming weeks backing its £5.91bn acquisition by an investment vehicle of Lego's founding family and private equity firm Blackstone.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Merlin Entertainments, the tourist attraction company, beat forecasts with a 6.2 percent rise in 2018 core earnings, driven by a strong performance at its theme parks business, and said its outlook for 2019 was "positive".
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LONDON, May 3 (Reuters) - Merlin Entertainments, the British company that operates Madame Tussauds waxworks, the London Eye and Alton Towers, said on Friday it was trading in line with expectations during this seasonally quiet period of the year.
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DXB Entertainments, which is not part of the MSCI index but could be added in a review this week, lost 2.6 percent after the amusement park builder recorded a widening net loss for the three months to Sept.
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Both "My Struggle" and "Suits" are serial entertainments, with the difference that the TV show is a turbid middlebrow melodrama that places all of its aesthetic chips on plot — patently contrived story lines engineered to generate further incident.
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Water Margin made Kuniyoshi a star of the ukiyo-e genre, whose name means "pictures of the floating world," referring to kabuki and other popular entertainments, and the life of the pleasure quarters of the Edo period (210-1868).
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Last year Merlin Entertainments, the world's second-biggest visitor attractions group behind Walt Disney, pleaded guilty to breaching health and safety laws over a rollercoaster crash at its Alton Towers theme park that seriously injured five people in 2015.
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A similar situation happened with UK theme park and attraction operator Merlin Entertainments' £1.252bn-equivalent euro-denominated term loan, which priced at 300bp in October as the lowest print for a Single B buyout loan last year, sources said.
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LONDON, Sept 27 (Reuters) - A British court has fined Merlin Entertainments 5 million pounds ($6.5 million) over a rollercoaster crash at its Alton Towers theme park in June last year that seriously injured five people, ITV reported on Tuesday.
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LONDON, Oct 6353 (LPC) - Investors are criticising documentation on a £99.55bn-equivalent loan backing the buyout of UK theme park and attraction operator Merlin Entertainments for including some of the most aggressive terms seen in the market to date.
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Merlin Entertainments, operator of tourist attractions such as Madame Tussauds waxworks, warned on full-year earnings on Tuesday, blaming a dip in trading in its key summer period on a series of attacks in Britain, sending its shares tumbling.
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Mackenzie will join Greene King on May 1 from Merlin Entertainments Plc, where he oversaw more than 100 businesses around the world including Madame Tussauds, the London Eye and SEA LIFE aquariums as a member of the executive committee.
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At the other end, Merlin Entertainments led gains on the benchmark, up 7.5% after activist shareholder ValueAct urged the Madame Tussauds owner to go private and said the company could be valued about 20% more than its current price.
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LONDON, Aug 4 (Reuters) - Britain's Merlin Entertainments , operator of tourist attractions such as Madame Tussauds waxworks, said it remained cautious on the outlook due to the recent attacks in London and Manchester, though it maintained full-year profit guidance.
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Based on "The Little Broomstick," a durably popular novel by Mary Stewart, and directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi, "Mary and the Witch's Flower" is a charming children's entertainment that sometimes seems to have been genetically engineered from other such entertainments.
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That's the mind-set that develops, it seems, when a boy's perception of the world comes almost entirely from pornographic films and Call of Duty video games, entertainments in which our leading almost-men are immersed day and night.
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We recently set out to survey all seven new breweries, most of the food options, and a few of the entertainments in Charleston's Brewery District, and can report that time spent here is refreshing in every sense of the word.
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LONDON, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Britain's Merlin Entertainments , the tourist attraction company, beat forecasts with a 13 percent rise in 2018 core earnings, driven by a strong performance at its theme parks business, and said its outlook for 2019 was "positive".
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The move is seen at improving cloud-based data offering services for corporate clients, which rival Alibaba Group dominates in China, and boosting its content offering capabilities for a wide range of services such as WeChat, music, games and other entertainments.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Merlin Entertainments, operator of Madame Tussauds waxworks and other attractions, has seen a fall in demand from domestic tourists following recent attacks in London and Manchester and said on Tuesday foreign visitors could stay away in the coming months.
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Likewise, a number of ratings downgrades also put pressure on stocks, with drugmaker Hikma down 4.7 percent after JP Morgan cut the stock to "neutral" from "overweight", and Merlin Entertainments down 2.9 percent following a Berenberg downgrade to "sell" from "hold".
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With that crew around, however, and L.B. driving the entertainments, the long evenings could become barbed—anagrams and other word games were played as life-and-death matters, and more than one participant, Jamie says, left the room in tears.
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LONDON, Sept 29 (Reuters) - Merlin Entertainments, the British theme park operator fined this week for a rollercoaster crash, lowered its full-year core earnings margin forecast on Thursday due to weaker trading at its London attractions like the Madame Tussauds waxworks.
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Potential sizeable deals include the £13bn acquisition of UK theme park operator Merlin Entertainments; the £1.91bn buyout of car auctioneer BCA Marketplace; the US$3.7bn acquisition of US auction house Sotheby's and KKR's €6.8bn offer for German publisher Axel Springer .
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" A contemporary account defined these as "a feast or a rejoicing, which the king gives to regale his court on some evenings in his superbly furnished and illuminated public apartments, with music, balls, dance, meals, games and other magnificent entertainments.
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The first mind has always held violence nearby, to use as needed, and that violence has infused everything we do—our entertainments, our sex, our schools, our ads, our jokes, our view of the earth itself, somehow even our food.
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"Bull Durham" and "White Men Can't Jump," most memorably, but also underrated entertainments like "Tin Cup" (in which Ms. Russo was the prize sought by Kevin Costner and Don Johnson) and "Hollywood Homicide," which hold up better than you might expect.
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Even if these characters' shared name is accidental, it speaks to a larger point: Disney has long evoked minstrelsy for its topsy-turvy entertainments — a nanny blacking up, chimney sweeps mocking the upper classes, grinning lamplighters turning work into song.
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No one wants flipped remakes to take the place of incisive, original stories about marginalized groups, but incisive, original stories are endangered either way, and some of the best big studio entertainments are able to smuggle some intelligence and insight into a multiplex.
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Square Feet GOSHEN, N.Y. — Merlin Entertainments, the British entertainment company with attractions all over the globe, sees this bucolic town in New York's Hudson Valley as the perfect spot to build its most ambitious and expensive project: the world's largest Legoland theme park.
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Cao, who was born in 1978, delves into the fantasies and entertainments of her generation, videotaping cosplayers in her native Guangzhou and building a virtual city in the online world Second Life, where her avatar, China Tracy, has served as a philosopher-guide.
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LONDON, March 2 (Reuters) - Britain's Merlin Entertainments , operator of tourist attractions such as Madame Tussauds waxworks and Legoland, on Tuesday reported a 3.4 percent rise in 2016 pre-tax profit and said it remained confident it could deliver a good year ahead.
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LONDON, June 13 (Reuters) - Visitor attractions group Merlin Entertainments said on Tuesday the attacks in Manchester and London over the past month had led to a deterioration in domestic demand and the firm is cautious on trends for foreign visits over the coming months.
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LONDON, Aug 8 (LPC) - Three equity investors behind the £5.91bn (US$7.49bn) take-private buyout of UK theme park and attraction operator Merlin Entertainments are also underwriting just under half of the £3.8bn-equivalent debt, uniting the interests of parties that have traditionally been separate.
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The £2.193bn-equivalent loan backing the buyout of UK theme park and attraction operator Merlin Entertainments, which closed this month, surprised the market as it proposed to set a minimum amount of €5m that lenders and investors could trade, compared with a usual €1m-€2m.
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An arch and antic reworking of "The Princess and the Pea," one of the folk tales that Hans Christian Andersen made his own, "Mattress" has always been close kin to British pantomimes, those grab-bag holiday entertainments that fracture classic fairy tales for family audiences.
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The world's second largest visitor attractions operator, Merlin Entertainments, posted a slight rise in profit for 2015, despite last year being the "most difficult" in its history, due to a fall in visitor numbers from one of its top U.K. theme parks, Alton Towers.
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And if the transition is any indication, then Trump's presidency will be as full of diversionary entertainments as his candidacy, replete with "finalists" competing for cabinet positions, geopolitical dramas in the subcontinent set off by Dr. Strangelove-like shenanigans, and the occasional neo-Nazi retweet.
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Deals awaiting syndication include a £1.387bn-equivalent financing for car auctioneer BCA Marketplace, £3.8bn-equivalent of loans for UK theme park and attraction operator Merlin Entertainments and US$3bn-equivalent of debt financing to back Bain Capital's potential acquisition of WPP's data analytics division Kantar.
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"Market uncertainty in the UK has played in favor of private equity funds, which have been very active and have carried out a number of take-private deals, including Merlin Entertainments, Sophos and Cobham," said Cyrus Kapadia, chief executive officer of Lazard Ltd's British operations.
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Though he loved the French New Wave and the Italian Neorealists — films that had the "gravitas and seriousness of a book" — he was equally drawn to popular entertainments, musicals and comedies on the radio as well as follies and vulgar "end of pier" seaside attractions.
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She was an only child and devised devious entertainments for herself that would be familiar to readers of "Last Things"; she dug holes for people to trip in, dusted the school with fingerprint powder in hopeful anticipation of a crime, spied brazenly on neighbors.
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Crazy rich people doing, building and saying mad, impulsive, sometimes beautiful and often ridiculous things: traveling cross-country for séances; wearing leather pajamas while breakfasting next to a corpse; creating fantastical gardens and grand interpretive dance or poetry entertainments at lavish or ramshackle country homes.
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"Johnson's the real deal, an old-school moviemaker with a nose for story, dialogue, and character; his films aren't art and they're not trying to be; they're simply among the most sublimely crafted entertainments of recent years," Ty Burr, critic at The Boston Globe wrote.
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Lego also wants to immerse people in its real-life worlds, and along with its eight Legoland theme parks (operated by Merlin Entertainments, of which the Kristiansen family owns 29.7 percent), it opened the Lego House in Denmark last September, a playground full of 25 million bricks.
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UK theme park and attraction operator Merlin Entertainments, which partly owns Legoland in Korea and Malaysia; Chinese consortium-backed Amer Sports and UK-based event organiser Clarion Events, which generates more than a quarter of its revenue from China and Hong Kong, are all trading down.
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I discovered some stuff about Victorian music halls 200 years ago in Britain, big places where two or three thousand people would gather, get drunk, watch entertainments of all kinds —from pianists to performing dogs— and there were prostitutes there and off-duty policemen and all kinds of shenanigans.
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This blind spot is particularly apparent when Chan writes of the crucial formative experience in his life: When he was seven years old, his parents pulled him out of school and enrolled him at the China Drama Academy, which churned out performers for Peking operas and other entertainments.
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The club built Berckmans seven years ago, behind a wall of greenery southwest of the fifth fairway, to give favored patrons and corporate friends a sumptuous refuge from the elements and the throngs, and presumably to capture some of the revenue it had been ceding to off-campus entertainments.
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Amusement park operator DXB Entertainments, whose slide this year has weighed heavily on the Dubai market, edged up 0.9 percent after it said chief executive Raed Kajoor al- Nuaimi had been appointed CEO of a new entity that will manage development projects for Dubai Holding and Meraas Holding.
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The movie was written by Bryan Sipe and directed by Jean-Marc Vallée, a filmmaker of considerable cunning, who takes predicaments that should by rights deflate the heart—an H.I.V. diagnosis in "Dallas Buyers Club" (2013), a psychological debacle in "Wild" (2014)—and turns them into nimble entertainments.
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The current financing backing EQT's acquisition comes as the loan market prepares to receive a jumbo debt financing totalling £3.8bn-equivalent of loans backing the £5.91bn (US$7.49bn) acquisition of UK theme park and attraction operator Merlin Entertainments by an investment vehicle of Lego's founding family and private equity firm Blackstone.
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In the U.K., Merlin Entertainments said on Friday it had agreed to be acquired by the investment vehicle of Lego's founding family and private equity firm Blackstone Group LP. Merlin, which operates Madame Tussauds waxworks exhibits around the world, saw its share price surge almost 14% on the back of the announcement.
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And if you've exhausted our list of highly recommended entertainments to keep you going over the festive season, I'd like to point you in the direction of this, a Bon Iver concert from earlier this month, which has now been released in full, on film, by the good people over at NPR.
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For Shane Van Dyke, who wrote the script with his brother Carey, such "mockbuster" enterprises are his business: His credits include off-brand entertainments like "Transmorphers 2" and "Paranormal Entity," and he even wrote and directed "Titanic II," a disaster film set on a replica ship 100 years after the original voyage.
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And the New Yorker argues that the tradition of sugar-based dioramas goes back much further, to the 20143th century: By the early Renaissance, inventive European court confectioners were crafting elaborate sculptures for special meals, often designed to echo or compliment the themes of the musical or theatrical entertainments that would accompany a banquet.
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That is the sinister taint to its immersion — it draws you in with its commitment to period specificity before trapping you there and reminding you that, in a time of greater religious fervor, far more unknowns in the world, worse hygiene, and fewer entertainments, it was all too easy for life to chew you apart.
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It is hard to imagine that if the developer, a Chinese emigrée, has her way, this rural nook in the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York might one day become a sprawling complex of residential properties, China-themed entertainments, a casino, shops, restaurants, offices, an exhibition hall and educational facilities covering hundreds of acres.
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The rooms are full to bursting with Victoriana, not to mention the requisite clues for those willing to meet the enticements of the piece head on, and I for one was pleased to find none of the face-disfiguring masks that form too great a part of other immersive entertainments on view in recent years.
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He amassed a fortune promoting a bewildering range of popular entertainments: an elderly slave masquerading as George Washington's nursemaid; a gifted Swedish opera singer, Jenny Lind, whom he turned into an international superstar; a half-monkey, half-fish masterpiece of taxidermy that he advertised as the FeeJee Mermaid; and other attractions, dubious and genuine.
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Deals include a £2.5bn (US$3.01bn) loan backing Advent's £4bn purchase of UK defence and aerospace group Cobham; £3.8bn-equivalent of loans backing an acquisition of UK theme park operator Merlin Entertainments; a £1.387bn financing backing the buyout of car auctioneer BCA Marketplace ; and €1.325bn of bonds backing a takeover offer of German lighting group Osram.
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Sony already sells a similar E Ink-powered watch in Japan called the FES—which stands for Fashion Entertainments startup—but it's limited to just displaying black and white patterns, and is as thick as other smartwatches that can do a lot more for a price tag that inches north of $250 if you were to have the FES imported to North America.
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Buyer: Blackstone; Kirkbi, Lego's founding family; and Canada Pension Plan Investment BoardTarget company: Merlin Entertainments, the second-largest operator of visitor attractionsThe upshot: At $7.5 billion, it was one of Blackstone's largest investments of the year and signaled that despite so many technological changes sweeping big business, some good old-fashioned fun still is a tried-and-true profit maker.
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Read that way, these entertainments seem like another kind of Enlightenment backlash, a further quest to push the human perspective out from the centre of our worldly preoccupations in order to ask (a la John Gray or James Lovelock) whether other sentient organisms are not equal stakeholders on this here Mothership Earth: enfranchised party members scrambling up and down the same snakes and ladders of evolutionary consciousness.
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