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...film's considerable accomplishments. The Freshman is about the rather rude introduction Clark Kellogg gets to the big city. Eager to start his first year at NYU Film School, he arrives at Grand Central Station and is immediately conned out of all his money and possessions by Victor Ray (Bruno Kirby). Kellogg meets up with Ray again and in order to make up for his past wrongs, offers him a job working for his uncle, Carmine Sabatini, a prominent importer with dubious business dealings. Sabatini sets Kellogg up delivering illegally imported endangedred species to mafioso gourmet chef Larry London (Maximilain...
...Guests began with the tux-clad banjoist joining the Blair String Quartet in a four-movement classical work by Fleck and composer Edgar Meyer. It ended with a jazz section riffed by Bela and the trio that became the Flecktones: Howard Levy on keyboards and harmonica, the brothers Victor and Roy ("Future Man") Wooten on bass guitar and Drumitar (a guitar wired to electric drums). Bela Fleck and Guests was one of the series' most popular programs and led to the record album. "I want to give people stuff they can move to and that is melodic, and that...
...liberal-arts emphasis here is seen by many as another of the strongest aspects of the program. "Harvard prepares a student to interact with a much broader environment and people who graduate from our department normally have incredible interpersonal skills," says R. Victor Jones, Wallace professor of applied physics, who is also an advisor...
...meeting ends in disarray less than 30 minutes after it started. "It's shameful," says Marian Victor of the Peasant Party. "There were only a few of us present, and we couldn't even communicate." The same could be said of all Romania as it prepares to go to the polls in the first multiparty elections in more than four decades. Presidential candidates representing parties opposed to the ruling National Salvation Front have been shouted down, pelted with eggs and physically threatened...
...most prestigious U.S. retailing chains. At least four potential buyers vied for the richly profitable company (estimated 1989 earnings: $111 million), which has 45 stores in such locales as Manhattan, Beverly Hills, and Palm Beach, Fla. When the winning bid of $1.5 billion was disclosed last week, the victor was Investcorp, a reclusive firm based in Bahrain that is becoming a powerful force in retailing...