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They may not be The Peking Acrobats or The Chieftains--other names on the diverse BankBoston Celebrity Series roster--but they can certainly surprise and entertain an audience, which is exactly what Joseph Silverstein, Derek Han and the Berlin Symphony Orchestra accomplished by tossing in a wholly unexpected encore performance. They may not draw the types of listeners who normally request encores of the performers, but orchestras--especially those with unfailing energy like that of the Berlin Symphony Orchestra--should have every right to be as impulsive as they wish...
...indisputable role of a Springfest band is to put students who want to be out dancing in the sun, out dancing in the sun. Any number of cheap bands can do this, and the Undergraduate Council could pay for a few of them to entertain consenting segments of the student population for the afternoon. Undoubtedly many students would fold their arms and disapprove, but hey, that's society. BENJAMIN J. LIMA '98 March...
...subject for satire. We grant, or anyway most of us do, that we are the world's funniest people. You can write more jokes about us than you can about plumbers, undertakers or Fuller brush salesmen. Hollywood is guilty of deliberate withdrawal from the living world. It seeks to entertain, and we suspect that the success of the withdrawal is what makes Hollywood funny. But let TIME Magazine view with alarm or point with pride, but not laugh off Hollywood's growing recognition of the fact that every movie expresses, or at least reflects, political opinion. Moviegoers live all over...
Things are really nasty in Pleasantville these days. The Reader's Digest Association, best known for its pocket-size magazine, is in a state of protracted turmoil. The sputtering 76-year-old publisher founded to "inform, enrich, entertain and inspire people" has lately just incited a group of big-game-hunting shareholders, who want to see the Digest company restructured or sold. "This is a company that has been asleep," says Nell Minow, a principal of Lens, an activist Washington-based money manager with a substantial stake in the firm. "We are trying to bring them into the 20th century...
...statement from Clinton, foundered in September when Jones demanded a full apology. By the time the Lewinsky story broke, disclosing an alleged pattern of exploitive sexual behavior by the President, the price tag had jumped to more than $2 million, a figure too embarrassing for the White House to entertain. But the legal and perceptual ground has shifted since then, mostly when Judge Susan Webber Wright ruled last month that the whole Lewinsky saga could not be admitted in the Jones case...