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...parks: the image on the giant screens was suddenly wider (CinemaScope), grander (Cinerama), clearer (VistaVision) and deeper (3D) than ever before. The idea was to lure people back to theaters by giving them an experience that couldn't be duplicated in the living room. It didn't work: the number of tickets sold dropped from an all-time high of 4 billion in 1946 to about a billion a decade later. And though the wide-screen process stuck, 3-D disappeared within a few years; many films shot in the process were released in "flat" versions...
...reasonable goal is to build liquidity without substantially increasing government regulation and the number of government people needed to monitor that regulation, the alternative is simply to enforce the rules that already exist...
Koutoujian said that Koh built consensus—an ability hailed by a number of his colleagues—by convincing all the players that it was in their best interest to give the hospital a chance to stay open...
...Down 10-3 after six innings, the Crimson was inspired by the appearance of a number of Harvard students, who were able to take a break from some the community service work they were doing in the area...
...Zucker, Jeff • bleak assessment - "I don't think we'll ever be able to say, 'NBC is Number One in prime time" - of future of network led by is offered...