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...thiop included what Green explained in the program as “curtain raisers” which “were always included to round out a complete and diverse evening’s programme.” Well, Harlequin at the Ballet did indeed diversify the program, but these “curtain raisers” could have seemed a little random to the uninformed. In other words, this was a production where the program mattered...
...Thunder T he liveliest show in London this Friday will be the annual shareholders meeting staged by Rupert Murdoch's pay-TV powerhouse BSkyB. The curtain rises 11 days after the global mogul installed his 30-year-old son James, pictured, as chief executive. Dad's News Corporation is BSkyB's largest shareholder, so giving the kid a job was easy, but it infuriated financial groups that own the rest of BSkyB's stock. Some are worried James will funnel cash to pop's firm rather than pay dividends. Iain Richards of Morley Fund Management told TIME he is "dismayed...
Football can thank Vince Lombardi’s Packers in the 60s and the Steel Curtain in the 70s for drawing in the fans from the beginning of the Super Bowl. Dynasties also last—Green Bay had a decades long waiting list for a team that didn’t start winning again until the 90s. Baseball has always been America’s pastime, but the dominance of the Yankees, for instance, helps sell merchandise and sell out stadiums...
...their wall. But in the case of a strange kind of American alchemy involving coal, don't expect to be welcome on a plant tour. The reason isn't that secrecy is necessary to protect a technological marvel but just the opposite. What you would see behind the curtain is a scheme that would make the Wizard of Oz envious. And you wouldn't be amused, because as an American taxpayer, you're paying...
...state - complete with its own anthem. "State Gebauer" became an "island of free expression" populated with whimsical figures of swimmers, gnomes and cows. And being a largely abstract concept, the sculptor's retreat escaped the attention of the authorities. Many unofficial artists working behind the Iron Curtain created private cocoons where they could work unhindered, though this meant their work was rarely seen. Now a new museum in Prague seeks to rescue them from obscurity. "This generation has been skipped over and forgotten," says Meda Mladek, a Czech-American art collector who founded the Museum Kampa. Located in a beautifully...