Word: webers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...best picture, best actor and best actress. Other best picture nominees include "Fargo," "Shine," "Secrets & Lies," and TriStar's "Jerry Maguire," the only picture from a major studio slated for the award. Despite the heavy PR that heralded the film's release, "Evita," a rework of Lord Andrew Lloyd Weber's stage hit, failed to make the grade for best picture. Madonna, who starred as the flashy Eva Peron, also came up short in her bid for a best actress nomination -- echoing criticism that her performance was nothing more than a feature-length rock video. "Evita," in fact, was nowhere...
Thus when Hennessy-Fiske asserts that she purchased her Weber book at Harvard Book Store for less money, she certainly could be speaking the truth...
Coop Director Frank Montgomery explained that the Weber incident is not, as would seem obvious, The Coop's fault, but rather a product of professors' insistance that certain editions are used for their classes...
Coop policy is to consult Professors who have listed an expensive edition, such as the Giddens edition of Weber which goes for $37.50, and to suggest to the professor that alternative editions be made available to students, Montgomery said...
Rather than taking Montgomery's word as truth, I decided to see if comparison shopping really paid off. It did; I purchased Weber's book at the Harvard Book Store for less than the cost of any Coop edition...