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Despite the stir Thernstrom's work has caused at Harvard, Thernstrom contends that the University is a secondary theme...
...movie, Fallen, due later this year) and signed an exclusive recording contract with Sony Classical. Slated for release in October is Marco Polo: An Opera Within an Opera, a work whose U.S. premiere, to be given the following month by the New York City Opera, is already causing a stir in the music business. Paul Kellogg, City Opera's general and artistic director, describes Marco Polo as "a visionary experience--and I think some people would call it a mystical experience...
...nights,when it was the turn of our press to sing, I would climb up on the pressman's platform, and for a moment or two my small perch became Olympus. I would riffle the paper in place on the feedboard and then punch the first power button to stir the dead weight of the steel and lead. The press would groan and move and finally plunge back and forth like a stallion in harness, air cylinders hissing and gasping as they cushioned each surge. I would stand a few seconds absorbing the rumble and relishing the power...
...none has. When regulators rejected SBC's application to provide long-distance service in Oklahoma last month, the company filed a suit charging that the law unfairly discriminates against the Bells. "If the FCC would go ahead and let us into the long-distance business, that would stir competition [in local service] faster than anything," says Roger Flynt, a group president for BellSouth...
...drank too much and smoked too much. He granted too many interviews full of cynical observations about himself and his business. He made too many bad movies and hardly any of the kind that stir critics to rapture or that, taken together, look like a life achievement worthy of official reward...