Word: bernstein
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...increasingly sparse, and at least 2,000 of the parlors have closed down this year. In Los Angeles, where the competition is particularly fierce, some arcades are selling eight game-playing tokens for $1 instead of the usual four. Christopher Kirby, a consumer-electronics analyst for the Sanford C. Bernstein investment firm in New York City predicts that one-fourth of the arcades still open in the U.S. will be forced out of business within a few years. Sales of new machines to the parlors have stalled. Ira Bettelman, vice president of a major arcade-game distributor in Los Angeles...
...songs, says: "They are colleagues of mine, speaking the same language with different accents." In fact, he adds, the Beatles' haunting composition, She's Leaving Home-one of twelve songs in the Sgt. Pepper album-"is equal to any song that Schubert ever wrote." Conductor Leonard Bernstein's appreciation is just as high; he cites Schumann. As Musicologist Henry Pleasants says: "The Beatles are where music is right...
...doesn't hurt that the program has a board of prestigious outside advisors that includes Leonard Bernstein '39 and Joseph Papp which helps recommend different artists. Mayman stresses that the Office usually acts in response to requests from students in bringing guests to Harvard...
...year degree. Most community colleges do not even coordinate course requirements with the universities that accept their graduates. Thus many transfer students are dismayed to discover, after completing two years at a community college, that few of their credits will count toward a bachelor's degree. Says Alison Bernstein, the Ford Foundation program officer who is directing the new project: "We want to help ensure that community-college students will have the proper credentials to be accepted at four-year institutions and will be able to handle the work when they get there...
...fathom being with a woman who's not in good shape." Glancing at the tall, slender, dark-haired woman pedaling next to him, he observes, "Any time you see a woman who knows how to sweat like that, you just gotta get to know her." The woman, A.J. Bernstein, 35, a freelance photographer, has the same ideal. "I'm not turned on by flab," she says. "Men get hostile when I take off my clothes and they discover what kind of shape I'm in. Two of them started lifting weights within a week of meeting...