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...things get worse for USAir? Today, the airline announced a $322 million loss for the fourth quarter of 1994, a year that saw twotragic USAir crashesand was marked by stubborn labor disputes. Company officials blamed much of the loss on a "dramatic dropoff" in ridership because of the crashes. At the same time, Robert Oaks, the retired Air Force general USAir hired as its safety chief in order to restore public confidence in the airline, rejected speculation that pilot error caused theSept. 8 USAir crashnear Pittsburgh that killed all 132 people aboard...
...beginning of this October, the Kennedy School deanship was the only position needing a replacement. Rudenstine's ship seemed back on course--until it collided with Harvard's illustrious and stubborn faculty...
...virtually all Europe came under the domination of the Nazis. An Albert Speer-designed monument to the "thousand-year Reich" now dominates Berlin, the SS has become a peacetime police force, and nobody has heard of the Holocaust. But years of cold war with the U.S. -- and a stubborn guerrilla war with the Soviets in the East -- have begun to drain the German economy. Hitler, on the eve of his 75th birthday, is preparing for a possibly historic summit with President Kennedy -- President Joseph Kennedy Sr., that...
Dolly does not have an easy task in winning Vandergelder's heart, though. Jay Garner shines as this stubborn and miserly character who is charming despite his faults. He has a Jonathan Winters-like talent with facial expressions that brings power to his humor in many of the scenes. Vandergelder's "It Takes a Woman," makes his claim that a wife should stay home, cook and clean. Despite being imbued with 1950's sexism, it remains lively and hysterical...
...matter of innocent eyes doing sunlight with broken touches without "academic" preconceptions is strictly for the birds in the sunlit trees. What's wrong with the name Impressionism is that it suggests quick shots of fleeting things. Yet the main progenitor of New Painting was the most solid, stubborn and material painter imaginable, Gustave Courbet. A Renoir like Bather with a Terrier, 1870, could hardly exist without the example of Courbet's wardrobe nudes. Courbet was the doubting Thomas of painting, the great empiricist who wanted to verify everything by touch, and his influence pervades Manet's work as well...