Word: prize
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...decides which contestant received the most and loudest applause. Except for a few randoms who can't leave the bar, the audience is really attentive and sometimes people give money to their favorite performers. The competition usually comes down to a first and second place winner, and the grand prize is $50 from the club...
Museums, it has been said, are the modern cathedrals. Richard Meier's Los Angeles Getty Musuem, Frank Gehry's Bilboa Guggenheim--these are the seats of present-day architectural spectacle and wonder. This year's winner of the Pritzker Prize (architecture's highest award) demonstrated his own ability to generate that sense of wonder. It was, indeed, a grand Piano performance...
...opening-round NCAA Tournament game against Central Connecticut State yesterday, the Crimson (12-4-1) defeated the Lady Blue Devils, 4-1, at Ohiri Field. Harvard's victory prize is a trip to the University of Hartford on Saturday to take on the No. 16-ranked Hawks in a round of 32 match...
...Barlett and Jim Steele on the folly of corporate welfare. Barlett and Steele came to Time Inc. 18 months ago from the Philadelphia Inquirer, where, over 26 years, they earned their reputations as America's finest investigative reporters. Along the way they garnered almost every major journalistic prize, including two Pulitzers--for stories on auditing practices of the IRS and special tax breaks engineered by Congress--two Loeb awards for business reporting and four George Polk awards...
...elect anybody," Bech lectures the group, "the institution will dwindle to nothing." Who would care? Not Bech's current mistress, Martina, who dismisses the Forty as "a bunch of mostly New York City has-beens electing themselves." Updike has one surprise for his beleaguered hero: the 1999 Nobel Prize for Literature. Anyone who thinks this stunning recognition will at long last make Bech at age 74 happy and fulfilled underestimates his funny and finely honed habits of suffering...