Word: tisch
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...mind that most U.S. hotels, hit hard by 16 months of recession, will not oblige you enthusiastically if you try to cancel. "Right now, they don't have the leverage, or give, they've had in the past," says Lalia Rach, the dean of New York University's Tisch Center for Hospitality and an expert on the global hospitality industry. "I'm sympathetic to travelers, but it is a business. In New York, people are still going to work...
...core audience.” Although Rich has been extremely successful in theater at Harvard, there was a time when she thought she’d rather study acting elsewhere. At the end of her freshman year, she applied and was accepted to NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, where she would have majored in theater. But at her parents’ urging, she remained at Harvard. “I think it actually would have killed me to go to a conservatory where everyone’s just being snotty and competitive and vapid...
...rather than film, eschewing dialogue and reportage for a haunting, gruesome, and powerful display of images. Most of the British-born McQueen’s work has been experimental. Famous for his silent films and small gallery projections, he dropped out of New York University’s Tisch School of Arts because he felt the teaching restricted his experimental aspirations. Now it seems McQueen has found success in this artistic attempt at relaying the famed story of the Irish Republican Army’s hunger strike in the early 1980s.“Hunger” follows the group...
...Harris, although a more technical education strengthens practical skills, it may detract from students’ creative ability. “When people leave NYU, they are technical masters but sometimes their ideas fall short,” said Michael F. Crommett, a freshman at NYU’s Tisch School.“My own bias is that you shouldn’t go to film school as an undergraduate,” Harris said. “It’s a better idea to go to a liberal arts school and develop something...
...most people, all this will mean reassurance as worrisome symptoms turn out to be nothing at all. "Normal is the new frontier," says Mony de Leon, director of the Center for Brain Health at New York University Tisch Hospital. And for those who do drift beyond that frontier, the same research may offer new hope for treatments and even cures...