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...Biddle says he and Gwynne would entertain their high school friends by singing a capella--Gwynne was a bass...

Author: By Alexander B. Ginsberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pursued By A Monstrous Image Of His Own Creation | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

...generals to run the league as a business. Players' salaries are generally minimal and ticket prices are cheap (70 to $6), although fans of many teams don't bother paying when they can climb over fences of poorly secured pitches. But as long as the generals can entertain friends and snack on fried tofu (a spectator favorite) during matches, why should they change anything? Attendance has been flat, from about 700,000 in 1994 to 750,000 today. Longtime sponsor Adidas abandoned the league...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fatigue in the League | 5/21/2001 | See Source »

...what? As a crude American, I enjoy comix more for how well they entertain me, than for how much mileage I can get out of deconstructing them. I will leave that to the French. As a comic, regardless of its origins, Stéphane Heuet's "Remembrance of Things Past," makes for a fine read, evoking a lost world, not just of physical superficialities, but of the very thoughts of the time. I am sure even the book's harshest critics would agree that a little Proust is better than none...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Abomination or Magnum Opus? | 5/11/2001 | See Source »

...more to the point, why would a team of actors and actresses even entertain the thought of going over to the dark side to do a reality show? Maybe because, if Hollywood actually went on strike, it'd be the only work in town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Reality TV (Just Maybe) Saved the Writers from Themselves | 5/4/2001 | See Source »

...these ideas have been batted around, and mostly down, for years. Some gloomy experts say there needs to be at least one more delay-plagued summer season before all interested parties in the industry will sit down and seriously entertain higher prices or equipment changes, or, for heaven's sake, flying to one of the scores of smaller airports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What the FAA Needs Is a Domineering, Jet-Propelled Coach | 5/1/2001 | See Source »

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