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...European brethren were hand-crafting films, had begun to forge a distinctive adult American cinema. Few thought in terms of box office megamillions. The idea was to earn enough to entice someone into financing your next picture. (Jean-Luc Godard had done this successfully in France in the 60s; Robert Altman adopted that model for his pioneering 70s works.) Most films by the most gifted Americans were present-day dramas that picked at some social scab until, in the last reel, it burst...
...could smell the smoke on the fourth floor,” she said as she stood outside with a bathrobe under her jacket. “You could smell it through the fireplace.” Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) Sergeant Robert Cooper, who was at the scene, said that HUPD responds any time a fire alarm is set off. “You could see it burning,” he said. “There was a lot of smoke coming out.” Barksdale said that similar fires could be prevented if smokers smoked farther...
...executive director of the Harvard Opinion Research Program, Robert J. Blendon, recommended that The Crimson recalculate the results to give equal weight to the responses from females and males...
...Delhi two weeks ago. It's playing the Washington game like the locals do--with lobbyists. Long before Bush's visit, India lined up two lobbying firms to sell the deal. The Indian embassy signed a $700,000 contract last fall with Barbour, Griffith & Rogers, an outfit led by Robert Blackwill, Bush's ambassador to India from 2001 to 2003. The embassy is also paying $600,000 to Venable, a firm that boasts former Democratic Senator Birch Bayh of Indiana as its point...
...sculpture, a Marc Newson sketch and a swatch of gray fabric from a chair in his house. "I'm noticing more organic shapes and more black and white than color right now," he says, flipping through an auction catalog filled with works by American artists like Alexander Calder and Robert Motherwell...