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...worked. After going 8-18 in 1992, Harvard upped its record to 9-16 in '93 and 12-17 in '94 before last season's breakout year, in which the Crimson set a team record for wins and earned its second-highest winning percentage...
...worked. After going 3-18 in 1992, Harvard upped its record to 9-16 in '93 and 12-17 in '94 before last season's breakout year, in which the Crimson set a team record for wins and earned its second-highest winning percentage...
...rooms, say an additional 10,000 this year, is Bollenbach's mission at Hilton, a company he hopes to turn into a hot property again. His timing is nearly perfect. The lodging industry in the U.S., which bled money over seven horrendous years from 1987 to 1993, had a breakout performance in 1995, and is now running out of room to hold the profits. This year the industry will earn more than $10 billion, a record, as occupancy and rates go up and costs go down. Stocks of such companies as Hospitality Franchise Systems, Marriott International and ITT are soaring...
...would be wearing the shy, radiant smile that illuminates Il Postino, for last week the film received five nominations from the Motion Picture Academy in Hollywood. Though unsanctioned by the usual arbiters of artistic chic--film festivals and critics' groups--and something less than a breakout box-office hit of the Like Water for Chocolate variety, Il Postino became the first foreign-language film nominated for best picture since Ingmar Bergman's Cries and Whispers 22 years ago. Troisi was cited for his performance, Radford for his direction. Both the screenplay and the score were also nominated. In a race...
Stettheimer was mesmerized by this sense of breakout, its glitter and fun, its internationalism and Americanness. Her art records, and gently satirizes, that zeitgeist. Nobody could call Stettheimer a major artist, but she didn't deserve the half-century of near oblivion that the new show brings to an end. This was partly her own doing: for all her love of camp flamboyance, Stettheimer wanted to arrange the disappearance of her own work and ordered her executors to destroy the contents of her studio. Fortunately, they disobeyed. Her friend Marcel Duchamp arranged an exhibition for her at the Museum...