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...With the advent of the big-time football we see today, Harvard was no longer a player on the national scene. The formation of the Ivy League as a football conference in 1956 ushered in a new, modern era of collegiate football for Harvard...
...They go to see special effects, explosions, action, and carnage. And although this movie does deliver these things with not insubstantial proficiency, it also lays bare the dangers of separating these pursuits from simple quality movie-making and of relying completely on effects to stimulate audiences. Even with the advent of computer graphics and more impressive special effects than ever--indeed, because of such advances--such an approach is bound to backfire...
...logical turn of the wheel. In Broadway's golden era, the songs Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers and others wrote for the stage were the same ones that sat atop the nation's hit parade. But with the advent of rock 'n' roll, pop and show music diverged. Though a stray Broadway hit might get radio airplay (Don't Cry for Me, Argentina), and a whiff of something like rock occasionally stirs the Great White Way (Rent), Broadway became a separate and self-contained musical domain, irrelevant to the most creative musicians of the rock generation...
Since then I have found others who were just like me. Girls who grew up watching men play basketball all year and rarely got the chance to see what women could do. A new era has definitely arrived with the advent of two professional women's basketball leagues. Although I will finish my career in the amateur ranks, this has raised the visibility of the sport and increased the influence female athletes have as role models...
...with the advent of the Internet, the exchange of data has been facilitated, Steim says, but he adds that it was not crucial to the early success of the project...