Word: oliva
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...cable network, best known for hits like The Sopranos and Sex and the City, but HBO executives are confident their venture into the Mexican TV market will pay off. "There are millions of viewers across Latin America screaming out for shows with more quality and realism," said Miguel Angel Oliva, Vice President of Corporate Affairs at HBO Latin America. "And from Tijuana down to Patagonia, there is an immense talent among actors, directors and writers dying to make them...
...However, HBO's Oliva said his confidence in Capadocia was bolstered by the reaction of his 70-year-old mother to the series. At first, Oliva was worried the graphic violence, swearing and lesbian sex scenes would earn him a scolding. "I thought she might be angry with me," Oliva said. "Instead she told me, 'That is the reality in our country.' And she was dying to watch the second episode...
...Italian contemporary art critic and curator Achille Bonito Oliva has long considered Toscani an important artist, and provided him with two large salas at the 1993 Venice Biennele which he presided over. "The function of art is to puncture the collective disinterest," says Bonito Oliva. "Toscani has turned on its head American pop art's optimistic idea of consumerism...
...Literature and Arts B-51,] “First Nights.”14.FM: Who was your favorite Cleveland Indians right fielder during the 1997-2000 seasons?MJS: Manny Ramirez, obviously. Coming from Minnesota, I began life as a Twins fans in the days of Harmon Killebrew and Tony Oliva. But my loyalties have long since shifted to the Red Sox.15.FM: We were looking for David Justice, but that’s okay. Do you read FM?MJS: I will from...
...Oliva has just been admitted to his first-choice medical school, Michigan State University, but he describes the process of defending his Christian college education to med-school admissions counselors as a painful one. "The questions were, 'So you're a conservative person? So you're a fundamentalist? So you come from a small school?' Well, not really. There are a lot of misconceptions about Christian schools." A.P.U.'s mission is to prove them wrong...