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...four leading characters, Greeley explains in a foreword, are shaded by one or more of the traditional seven cardinal sins (pride, covetousness, lust, anger, gluttony, envy and sloth). Greeley follows Patrick Donahue, his friend Kevin Brennan, and the two women in their lives, Ellen Foley and Maureen Cunningham, from a pre-seminary adolescent summer to the slopes of middle age. As a priest, Kevin is a controversial writer and social scientist who bears an unflattering resemblance to the author. Donahue, clearly more fictional, is a cleric whose path through the hierarchy to Cardinal glides steadily up despite a series...
...City to present new works in sympathetic surroundings. At one point, they also welcomed the opportunity to snub each other: they led their companies to opposite sides of the school cafeteria. But in the decades that followed, the rivalries waned. The festival has nurtured a range of choreography-Merce Cunningham and Paul Taylor, José Limon and Pilobolus. Now held on the Duke University campus in Durham, N.C., the 47-year-old A.D.F. is a raucous gathering of the barefoot clans. Even ballet is now taught as part of the curriculum for the 230 multinational students of new dance...
Most M.B.A. programs, of course, consist of a varying mixture of lectures, case studies and improvised debate. At Stanford, where the curriculum ranges over the exotica of high finance, the class on power and politics in organizations devoted a session to the case of Mary Cunningham, the celebrated alumna of Harvard and Bendix who is now a vice president at Seagram. Perhaps because of former Dean Arjay Miller's long experience at Ford, Stanford tries particularly hard to blend the academic and the commercial. After learning that its students' writing ability was, as Business School Dean Rene McPherson...
...Street jump the same financial hurdles. Making movies and Making It may be, finally, the same thing. And sometimes It pays off. More than a few members of the New Hollywood elite-David Lynch (The Elephant Man), John Carpenter (Halloween), Martin Brest (Going in Style), Sean Cunningham (Friday the 13th), John Landis (The Blues Brothers)-got started in the business with pictures that cost $100,000 or less. It can be done. Just follow the advice of another ex-scrounger, Martin Scorsese: "You should just start working wherever you can! Get out, knock on every door, sneak into the studio...
...internal contradictions in Rose is that it is presented as a valiant and disquieting quest for identity, whereas Rose makes decisive choices and fails at life. At home her two young children are glued to the telly and her husband Geoffrey (John Cunningham) has to send out for chips to feed them since the fridge is bare. Geoffrey, a personnel manager on the skids, has been crossed off as a crashing bore by Rose, and salves his hurt with a nightly round of the pubs...