Word: awards
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...narrow sense: a federal jury found that the old and established N.F.L. was guilty of monopolizing professional football. But the U.S.F.L. lost its $1.7 billion suit where it counts, at the bottom line. After five days of tortured debate, the five- woman, one-man jury awarded the new league $1 in damages. Even tripled, as antitrust damages are by law, the award would not buy the winners a new chin strap...
...squabble comes at a time when the U.S. tuna fleet has made substantial progress in reducing dolphin deaths. Tuna fishermen say that between 98% and 99% of the animals captured in nets are released unharmed, and the tuna-boat association has instituted the "Golden Porpoise Award" for the skipper with the fewest dolphin kills in a season...
...handsome conventional auditorium to a 1,173-seat outdoor Elizabethan playhouse, closely modeled on the Fortune Theater built in London in 1600? What company annually attracts more than 300,000 playgoers, 90% of them from more than 150 miles away? What company won a 1983 Tony Award and drew the American Theater Critics Association convention to view its 50th anniversary season...
...only times that Streep seems to be putting on an Academy Award performance, rather than taking you on a tour through the family album, are when she is with Nicholson. As Mark Forman, Nicholson gives a performance reminiscent of everything he has ever done. A little from Terms of Endearment, a little from Prizzi's Honor, even a bit from The Shining when Mark gets upset...
Since 1981, recipients of MacArthur Foundation grants, the "genius awards" that permit five years of financial freedom, have included poets and composers, scientists and even a mime. But a prestidigitator? Last week James Randi, a.k.a. "the Amazing Randi," whose sleight of hand has exposed psychic gimmicks, hoaxes and claims of the paranormal, was among this year's 25 winners, picking up $272,000 for his crusade to protect sick people from unscrupulous faith healers. The award came as a total surprise. "You can bang your head against the wall, call Sophia Loren or take it soberly," he notes. "It takes...