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Producer Dino De Laurentiis is known for some oversize movies, among them Conan the Barbarian and the 1976 remake of King Kong. But now the flamboyant founder of the De Laurentiis Entertainment Group is in colossal trouble with creditors, whom his company owes $122.6 million. Only a year ago Wall Street speculators were pouring money into the Beverly Hills-based firm, but it lost $20.5 million during the six months ending in August, thanks in part to such flops as Tai-Pan and King Kong Lives. To raise cash, the company is struggling to find buyers for its library...
Perhaps the most prescient battle over honorary degrees occurred when overseer John Quincy Adams (1787) refused to attend an honorary degree ceremony conferring the coveted parchment on his political enemy Andrew Jackson, who Adams called "a barbarian who could not write a sentence of grammar and could hardly spell his own name...
...repertoire of classic, bel canto and romantic bass roles, Ramey, 45, is without peer. He is a seductive Don Giovanni and a boisterous Leporello in Mozart's Don Giovanni, a poignant Don Quixote in Massenet's Don Quichotte and a terrifying barbarian chief in Verdi's Attila. This month he is in Italy for appearances at La Scala in his favorite role, the sexy Figaro in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro...
...evidently persuaded that the administration is bluffing and lacks the courage of its proclaimed convictions; and, alas, the administration continually proves them right. Though university officials bravely tilt at distant windmills like the Moral Majority and Accuracy in Acadmia, they are curiously meek when it comes to the barbarian within. Their pious hand-wringing and declarations of high moral principle are unfortunately just puffed-up cowardice. With such sterling examples of character to inspire them, it's little wonder that a few students decide to behave like hoodlums. John Harper GSAS, Department of Government
Unfortunately, American views of British art tend to echo the Chinese court scribe who is said to have remarked, in a letter to George III, that his Emperor was not unmindful of the "remoteness of your tiny barbarian island, cut off as it is from the world by so many wastes of sea." Modern British art, that is to say, tended toward the provincial, the marginal, the literary and the cute; it cultivated nuance and eccentricity at the expense of broader and grander pictorial concerns; it was anecdotal and too much tied to a fascination with human society -- little-island...