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Among the hundreds of club boats entered in the Head each year are several crews with grander connections to Harvard. Some are made up in part or entirely by ex-Harvard rowers. Others, such as the Business School boat, maintain direct ties with the University...
...every / five U.S. households, thus providing a potent market for Fox movies and programs. Together, the two men harbor an ambitious dream: to become major players in American television and develop their holdings into what amounts to a "fourth network." Alone, Murdoch may have an even grander plan: to build a global television empire linking Europe, America and Australia...
...acclaimed. Jewel's subject may seem more distant to American viewers. But they would be well advised to set aside their Sunday evenings for the next three months to follow this uncommonly rewarding series. There could be no truer memorial to Scott's quiet masterpiece and no grander elegy to the ambiguous power of the Empire. -By Pico Iyer
...discussing a full-fledged opera, and she hopes to commission Glass's next piece) as well as selected revivals of Broadway shows like South Pacific. "We should be looked at as an experimental company," says Sills, contrasting the City Opera's image with that of the grander Metropolitan Opera next door at Lincoln Center. "[Music Director] Jimmy Levine agrees with me that the Met should be like the Metropolitan Museum, and we should be like the Museum of Modern Art." -By Michael Walsh
...show's casting is even grander than its ambitions. Chita Rivera (Anna) is about as small-time as Radio City Music Hall. Packing 30 years of Broadway savvy into the frame of a vivacious teenager, the 51-year-old entertainer could by now sell a song to the deaf; she commands the audience like a lion tamer with a whip snap in her walk; and, by the forces of magnetism and sheer will, she eats co-stars for breakfast. Thus it is partly noblesse oblige and partly the instinct for survival that keeps Liza Minnelli (Angel), the bigger...