Word: broadcast
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...military strikes have also created some uneasiness in the Jewish community at Harvard. A released speech by bin Laden, broadcast on Sunday morning, faulted Israel for the current hardships that Afghanistan is facing...
...DIED. VICTOR WONG, 74, Chinese-American artist, journalist and actor; near Locke, California. A member of San Francisco's "beat" scene in the 1950s, Wong became one of the first ethnic Chinese broadcast reporters in the U.S. Although he suffered from Bell's palsy, casting directors found his looks perfect for the wise-old-man roles he played in films such as The Joy Luck Club and The Last Emperor. DIED. ISAAC STERN, 81, dynamic violinist who was an ardent supporter of Israel and a tireless advocate of music education and government funding of the arts; in New York City...
...Nobel Prizes will be awarded on Thursday, Oct. 4, at 7:30 pm in a ceremony in Sanders Theatre. Tickets are available through the Harvard Box Office by calling (617) 496-2222 between 12 and 6 p.m. The ceremony will also be broadcast live over the internet. Check http://www.improb.com/ig/2001/2001-attend.html for more details...
...first, music seemed irrelevant. Not long after the September 11th terrorist attacks, MTV interrupted its scheduled programming to broadcast live news feeds. Record stores in New York City closed. Music sales around the country, which had been slow anyway, dipped about five percent. Several artists, including the rapper DMX, pushed back their album release dates. Marc Anthony, the pop/salsa singer, dropped plans to promote his latest single, a song about heartbreak that was written before the events. The song?s mistimed title: ?Tragedy...
...Rodgers organized separate all-star tribute recordings to benefit the victims. Playwrights and actors in New York plan an evening of short plays written for the occasion to raise money. Comic-book artists, including Will Eisner, collaborated on a volume of stories about the attacks. And Friday night, every broadcast network and numerous cable channels aired the two-hour telethon America: A Tribute to Heroes. Surprisingly restrained, held on spare, candlelit stages, it featured elegiac performances from musicians including Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, Sheryl Crow and Alicia Keys and so many star presenters--Tom Hanks, Muhammad Ali, Julia Roberts--that...