Word: biz
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...action may be the first time that an Asia-based website has been closed for violating movie copyrights. But it is likely to be just an inaugural skirmish in a protracted legal battle against online video piracy. Movie moguls might ask their colleagues in the music biz for a few pointers on this. For the past three years, record companies have been trying to turn back the rising tide of online music trafficking. Napster, the pioneering Web service that allowed computer users to share their libraries of MP3 tunes, lost a high-profile court case against the big record labels...
...inspire the debut of Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 on the rap scene, which is reputedly part of what made University President Lawrence H. Summers so angry. But at least West has more than one song to show for his foray into the music biz. He has her beat by the numbers. How do the two compare on other points...
...were not without their critics. Their routine was one they had performed at competitions two years ago. As music they were using the theme from Love Story. Compared with the Russians' more nuanced classical choice, Thais, by the French composer Jules Massenet, it sounded a bit sappy and show biz. Looking over the roster of judges, many people expected a kind of cold war face-off. The judges from the U.S., Canada, Germany and Japan were more likely to back the Canadians. The Russians could likely count on the judges from China, Russia, Ukraine and Poland. That would leave...
...were not without their critics. Their routine was one they had performed at competitions two years ago. As music they were using the theme from Love Story. Compared with the Russians' more nuanced classical choice, Thais, by the French composer Jules Massenet, it sounded a bit sappy and show biz. Looking over the roster of judges, many people expected a kind of cold war face-off. The judges from the U.S., Canada, Germany and Japan were more likely to back the Canadians. The Russians could likely count on the judges from China, Russia, Ukraine and Poland. That would leave...
...doesn't that skew the audition? Our actor of the moment spills his/her guts to you...and in the corner of the frame you spot, for a split second, someone who radiates glamour, beauty, that ineluctable It. Then she's gone, back into anonymity. That's part of show biz too: not just the ones who are trying to make it but also the thousands who got away...