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Scouting Report Gerald Levin was faulted for buying cable systems, but that proved a smart bet. Only thing missing is a major network, and co-chair Ted Turner lusts after NBC. But Levin, happy with the WB and cable nets, isn't eager to overpay...
...that has changed, though, as a spectacular exhibition opening at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City this week makes clear. "Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids" is the first major show devoted to the Old Kingdom. It features some 250 objects from 32 institutions in 10 countries--including exquisite sculptures, relief paintings, vessels, furniture and jewelry--created for use in the temples and royal tombs surrounding Egypt's most familiar monuments...
...game--not bad on a campus of 1,380. It is more common to see students at games wearing Swarthmore math department T shirts (WE MATH GOOD) than football jerseys. "A lot of people don't care about football here," said senior Paul Dickson, an engineering major. "It doesn't exactly fit into the culture." But the team's ignominious run has aroused the curious. Said another senior, Abbas Ebrahim: "There's the whole Cinderella thing about the streak." As he spoke, Swarthmore scored on a long touchdown pass. The student section erupted. Ebrahim and Dickson bumped chests...
...business motive behind these shows--and other new series with major teen characters, or spin-offs of teen hits (The Parkers, Angel, Time of Your Life)--is simple enough: success breeds imitators, and the large (about 31 million), fickle 12-to-19-year-old demographic draws ad money. But the economics alone don't explain the high school vogue, nor why the shows include a couple of the fall's better premieres. True, high school programs are still often mired in soap-opera plots--see the randy Manchester, whose early glimpses just miss so-bad-it's-good status...
Anthony's forthcoming album, Marc Anthony (Columbia), due out Sept. 28, is his first major album to feature primarily compositions in English. Anthony not only switches languages for his newest release; he also changes genres--the tracks here are Latin-tinged, but for the most part they obey the standard rules and regulations of Top 40 pop. The best songs on this CD burn with Anthony's customary golden fire: the first single, I Need to Know, has a welcome urgency. In addition, one of the Spanish-language cuts, the salsa-infused De la Vuelta, is vibrant and involving...