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...fact is, although some of the best-known Branson businesses are in the black-the main airline, trains, Virgin Direct financial services and the Megastores all turn profits, says Whitehorn-plenty more just plain haven't worked. Virgin Drinks, the cola company, lost millions in recent years. Virgin Express, a Brussels-based discount airline that trades on the nasdaq for about $1 a share, down from more than $27 in 1998, has been hit by its dependence on connections with Belgium's beleaguered Sabena airline...
...hasn't begun yet. Yes, we can find Brett Favre and Jerry Rice on the golf course rather than the football field (and if you've ever seen Rice play, it's not aesthetically pleasing). Yes, the NBA is in its boring regular season, and the NHL is just plain boring...
...contrast with this year. The slogan, "New Beijing, Great Olympics," is upbeat and focuses on the city. The bid committee considered "New Beijing, New Olympics," but wisely chose not to be seen reinventing a competition that started in ancient Greece (and it rejected "Great Wall, Great Olympics" as plain dumb). The committee has also chartered a new bus?with a bar and computer outlets on board?for visiting I.O.C. delegates. Streets are lined with 100,000 bid posters and brightened up with huge urns of fake carnations, presently covered with plastic sheets to keep off the soot. The People...
...just turned away from pop music altogether. And if you happen to be a teenager, of course, you might not mind if they did. But the funny thing is, at the same time that the hard edge of pop gets harder and the soft edge gets softer, it's plain that rock has also become one of those things, like pets and baseball, that lets parents and kids find a shared passion. It may be that Eminem doesn't provide much opportunity for parent-child bonding, unless you're trying to explain why the incest taboo is not just some...
...America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries" is a wonderfully informative show, assembled at the highest level of quality, full of protein, no fat. It is installed with perfect taste and simplicity--as it should be, since that was how Stieglitz showed new art in his 291 Gallery, plain and direct. Organized by art historian Sarah Greenough and backed up by an excellent catalog with essays by a dozen leading art historians, the show is a must-see if you want to understand how modernism grew in the U.S.; how America caught up with itself and with Paris...