Word: twinning
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...However, Richard Corliss referred to the possibility that the documentary nominating committee may have preferred a no-risk, PBS-style format," and I feel it necessary to set the record straight: Hoop Dreams, in fact, is a public-broadcasting project. It was a co-production of St. Paul's Twin Cities Public Television and Chicago's Kartemquin Educational Films, and was funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and PBS (among others). This risk-taking film would not exist without public television's backing. Gerald Richman, Vice President National Production Twin Cities Public Television St. Paul, Minnesota THE REPORT...
...Federal Aviation Administration tonight issued an emergency directive to force the grounding of airplanes with faulty bolts in their engines. FAA officials said the directive could take up to 8,000 general aviation airplanes (roughly 10% of the U.S. total) out of service, ranging from small Cessnas to some twin-engine planes, until the bolts are replaced. CNN reported that the FAA also grounded all Arrow Air flights for an indefinite period of time because the Miami-based airline was not keeping adequate records...
...Crimson will also have to contend with Ilsa Webeck, Dartmouth's 6-4 senior center. However, in light of the way Harvard shut down Brown's twin towers--Martina Jerant and Chris Yasaitis--the team feels confident it can handle taller players inside...
...latter he was bitterly disappointed, and his subsequent relations with his grown son, so piteously revealed by their correspondence, inevitably revolved around the twin subjects of career and money. Leopold, in Solomon's view, never reconciled himself to Mozart's maturity and in a thousand ways endeavored to infantilize and emasculate him. "Always pursuing his quota of freedom, Mozart constantly drew back and returned to conditions of bondage," Solomon writes. Mozart's lifelong fear of his father determined his behavior. When on July 3, 1778, his mother died in Paris, where Leopold, despite her protestations of poor health, had sent...
DIED. NAT HOLMAN, 98, basketball coach; in New York City. Master of the "New York game," with its asphalt-playground emphasis on defense, passing and team strategy, Holman engineered City College of New York's unique twin National Invitation Tournament and ncaa championships in the 1949-50 season. A year later, the triumph was tarnished by the arrest of several of Holman's players in a point-shaving scandal...