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Auto-industry observers were impressed with how quickly Hyundai responded to the situation. Still, it was not the kind of debut that a carmaker dreams about...
...past month, after classes at Princeton, Brooke Shields has been slipping into New York City to rehearse, and last week she made her off- Broadway debut in Marguerite Duras' 1977 play The Eden Cinema. The setting is French Indochina during the 1930s, and Shields, 20, portrays Suzanne, a fetching 16-year-old who is courted by a rich plantation owner. Director Francoise Kourilsky approached her for the part last year. Shields, who is majoring in French literature and had studied Duras' work at school, readily accepted her first professional nonmovie role. "She is a very strong actress," says Kourilsky...
...team All-Ivy honors last year, led all Crimson scorers with three goals in the game. Chris Pujols, the other Harvard co-captain, finished with two goals and two assists, while Nick Nero also threw in two goals and had an assist. Freshman Robert Griffith had an auspicious collegiate debut by pouring in two goals in the contest...
...American viewers, it might have looked like a routine week of programming. But in France, the debut of La Cinq (Channel 5), the nation's first privately owned non-cable network, marked the start of a new broadcasting era. La Cinq's Feb. 20 launch was followed last week by the official premiere of La Six, an MTV-style rock-music channel. With a seventh channel that will present cultural programs planned for later this year, the TV picture in France has never been so lively or diverse. Yet the new offerings have sparked a heated debate. Political opponents...
FOLLOWING THE inauspicious debut of wunderkind Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's The Magic Flute in 1791, the music critic of the Berlin Musikalisches Wochenblatt remarked that the opera had "not won the much hoped for and expected acclaim, on account of its inferior text and subject matter." Even so, the magical spectacle and symbolism that makes up what is perhaps Mozart's most popular opera continues to win the hearts of many music-lovers and theater-goers alike. That is, when the opera is performed well, which is definitely not the case at the Lowell House Opera's current rendition...