Word: ben
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...British director Tony Palmer's new film, Testimony, dramatizes the view that Shostakovich was a closet dissident who was bitterly resentful of the system that shackled him. In David Rudkin's elegant screenplay, Shostakovich (Ben Kingsley) negotiates his artistic salvation through public acquiescence, gratefully accepting his humiliation at a 1948 Soviet Composers' Union meeting and ritualistically denouncing Stravinsky at a conference the next year in New York City. Always he is haunted by the doom- laden specter of Stalin (Terence Rigby), who is seen thumbing through dossiers while sitting by the telephone, dispatching his opponents to their graves simply...
Students said they are satisfied with the current grading system. Freshman Ben Myers said that the 'NC' provides a "lack of pressure that makes Stanford so exciting. 'F's are bogus." He added, "A transcript is supposed to be a record of your academic excellence, and if I fail a course, I wouldn't want it showing...
...Ilyushin-76 plane landed at Ben-Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv at 5:45 p.m. (10:45 a.m. EST). Israel Army radio said the plane was allowed to land after officials received a request from the Soviet Union...
...Eric Thielen 4-1--9; Dave Marshall 5-3--13; Derek Counts 4-16--24; Keith Carpenter 4-1--9; Jeff Carr 4-0--9; Tim Lewis 0-0--0; Bob Cummins 1-4--6; Tommy Hammer 0-0--0; Mike Lunney 0-1--1; James Ben...
...fellow corporate raiders, everyone has become acquainted with such phrases as "mergers and acquisitions," "insider trading" and "hostile takeover." But while the media have closely covered the excesses of Wall Street, they have not been so careful to report the recent slew of takeovers in their own industry. Ben Bagdikian, the dean of Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, has called these developments, in a book of the same name, "The Media Monopoly...