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...Navy. The 567-ft., 10,000-ton vessel is the Navy's largest surface combatant, and Graf was the first - and is so far the only - woman to command this class of ship, with its 400-member crew. Driving a boxy cruiser requires ship-handling skills more deft than those needed to skipper a sleek destroyer or a frigate. But commanding the crew proved to be a far greater challenge for her. (See TIME's special report on the state of the American woman...
...political thrillers of the mid-'70s, back when some films were made for grownups and the comfortable catharsis of a happy ending was not required - think of the panoramically cryptic worldview of The Parallax View and Three Days of the Condor, and of course, Chinatown. In its cataloguing and deft evocation of those films, and the director's entire body of work, The Ghost Writer may not be major Polanski, but it sure is essential Polanski...
...Benigni did his clown's leap to the stage to pick up his Best Actor Oscar, but in retrospect, the issue isn't that Benigni beat out Nick Nolte, Edward Norton, Ian McKellen and Tom Hanks for the award; it's that Jeff Bridges wasn't even nominated. His deft, hilarious, thrillingly perfect performance as Jeffrey Lebowski, a.k.a. the Dude, in the Coen brothers' genius film The Big Lebowski should have been showered with prizes. Instead, the only official honor Bridges got for the 1998 film was a nomination from the Satellite Awards, whatever those...
...radio program when it was founded in 1947. The Today Show was launched on TV in 1952, followed by The Tonight Show in 1954. But by the 1970s, many of NBC's other TV offerings had foundered: local affiliates were defecting to competitors CBS and ABC, which were proving deft at luring away younger audiences. The company was bought - again - by General Electric in 1986; the new owners quickly shed NBC's remaining radio operations in part to avoid (you guessed it) antitrust concerns...
...Pioneers’ deft touch from beyond the arc, Sacred Heart’s aggressive rebounders also plagued Harvard. Although the Crimson dominated the boards in the first half, grabbing 21 rebounds in comparison to its opponents’ 11, Sacred Heart reversed the roles in the second half, pulling down 25 off the glass, compared to the Crimson’s 14. Overall, the Pioneers held an edge in rebounds, 36-35, at the end of regulation...