Word: entertainment
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Friedkin seems to think and direct his films in moral and ethical terms, terms which don't necessarily entertain the American public. But past commercial success show that he has the special ability to make the issues important to him compelling to others--and ultimately sellable to an audience...
Random Notes: Harvard junior quarterback Mike Giardi, victim of 11 sacks, had a net minus-40 yards rushing against Princeton...With Lerch playing defense, offense and special teams Saturday, Princeton Coach Steve Tosches might entertain the idea of putting the versatile senior at his one big hole: quarterback. "That's not that far-fetched," Tosches said...Harvard senior Read Hubbard ran the one play he's been successful on all season Saturday, a crossing pattern across the middle, and, as usual, made it a big one. Hubbard picked up 25 yards...Junior Mark Hall is now the Crimson's second...
Evidently Acevedo believes that a musician's job is only to entertain his or her fans, but unfortunately, some of today's music stars recognize that some things are more important than selling albums and making money. Sinead O'Connor does not care if her album sales suffer as long as she makes people aware of an issue that she rightly sees as important...
Watch these statesmen in motley, clowns on the stump, and Limbaugh's mud track can look like the high road. He meets his own challenge -- to inform and entertain -- and those who don't get it are always free to tune out. But even some righteous liberals are closet Rushophiles, because the man is so good at what he does. And knows it. And tells you, in a voice whose every syllable bespeaks a 25-year apprenticeship in radio oratory, without fear of repetition or contradiction. If vainglorious were two words, he'd fit both of them...
...stern and tough, but at the same time hopeful. He tries to keep the work in perspective, peppering his sometimes tough Vince Lombardi language with jokes. In practice, Freed the storyteller sometimes plays Freed the prankster. At a recent Tuesday evening session, Freed called on freshman Jake Bassett to entertain the team with a song...