Word: starring
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...Jesuit magazine. Samway got a copy of the manuscript in 1975 but rediscovered it only earlier this year while cleaning out his files. "It seems strange that no one published it," Samway said. "But it wasn't until 1950 when he won the Nobel Prize that [Faulkner's] star rose." One wonders if the editors fared as well...
...Late Night with Conan O'Brien. Clarence Clemons' sax work displays nuances and noodlings that were absent from his bombastic style in the '70s and '80s. And the return of Bruce's original sidekick from his Asbury Park bar-band days, guitarist Steve Van Zandt--now a co-star on the acclaimed HBO series The Sopranos--adds a powerful but intangible measure of heart and soul...
...arsenal of curious things an artist can do with colored pigment, Ann Hamilton summoned up the equivalent of a cruise missile and fired a shot heard round Venice's Grand Canal. Hamilton, 43, is this year's star-power artist officially representing the U.S. at the 48th Venice Biennale, the oldest of the international art expositions. With 59 countries participating and more than 100 artists on view through Nov. 7, there is, as ever, notable work amid a great deal of minor junk. At the opening, Hamilton's minimalist installation--four rooms that appear empty but for a shower...
...consolidation is the name of the tourism game. Four giant alliances, led by Star (United, Lufthansa, SAS, Air Canada, Thai, Varig, Ansett Australia and Air New Zealand), account for more than 60% of world airline traffic today. "Alliances give airlines the advantage of retaining their own identity while getting a global marketing reach," says Tim Goodyear of the International Air Transport Association, based in Geneva. Star is run by a management board and boasts integrated check-ins and sales forces. Other alliances allow partners to sell seats on one another's flights...
Throughout the industry, competition is the key to efficiency, innovation and customer satisfaction. A study at the University of Illinois found that the Star airline alliance was holding down prices as much as 36% below those offered by nonmembers on routes where passengers made connections. In the view of optimists, consolidation will always be offset by the limitless demands of individual taste and the enduring lure of the unknown...