Word: successful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nine members of that squad took team success one step further this weekend in Austin, Tex., where Harvard placed 17th at the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships...
...received by the public in a manner that disappointed Congreve, but it still earned the praise of John Dryden. Congreve himself knew that his play would not be a great popular success, for as he wrote "little of it was prepared for that general Taste of our Audience...
Alcorn attibuted much of the Square's success to the market provided by Harvard University. "Harvard Square has a captive audience," said Alcorn. "This includes not only the student population but also the large staff and faculty." She also cited the expansion of the MBTA Red Line and the resulting tourist market as a major cause of the Square's economic boom...
...over profit participation -- there were suspicions, says Director John Frankenheimer, that the studio was cooking the books -- Sinatra withheld rights to the movie. But it is of such snits that cult films are made. As Axelrod has said, "It went from failure to classic without ever passing through success." Now the filmmakers have their chance. The New York Film Festival coaxed Candidate from Sinatra last year, and the picture is doing robust business in six cities, as a promo for its spring debut in video stores. See? Happy endings all around...
...Whittle's Knoxville-based Whittle Communications is preparing to assault the publishing industry with an audacious plan that would effectively ban many of the country's most popular magazines from a high- profile setting: doctors' waiting rooms. What is more, the 40-year-old publisher is so sure of success that he has already proclaimed victory without firing a shot. Declares Whittle: "The battle is virtually over, and we took no prisoners...