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Students will vote whether to revert to the council's more traditional focus on student services or to push forward the socially progressive bent forged by current president Lamelle D. Rawlins '99 and her predecessor, Robert M. Hyman...
Last week ballerina Merrill Ashley hung up her pointe shoes after 31 years with the New York City Ballet. Her predecessor, the legendary ballerina Allegra Kent, recalls what made Ashley unique...
...When Bernard died in 1994, his sister Lili and his sons Simon and Nick took up the quest. By chance, they stumbled onto one of the family's Renoirs, an orchard scene entitled Le Poirier, in an old auction catalog of Parke-Bernet, the corporate predecessor of Sotheby's. That painting is now in London, where the family is trying to get it back. As for the Degas, it turned up in the catalog for a 1993 exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum that listed the owner as Daniel Searle, a trustee of the Art Institute of Chicago. The Goodmans contacted...
...film's basic structure, Anastasia tries its best to mimic the Disney style. Here, it does astonishingly well, and sometimes even surpasses its predecessor. The musical numbers, in particular, are startlingly good. "Journey to the Past," the show-stopping solo for Anastasia, will linger in your head for days as will Rasputin's personal ode to evil...
Under Katzenberg, Disney animation flourished with a new visual and musical verve. Nearly every film, from Oliver & Company (1988) to The Lion King (1994), outgrossed its predecessor by 40% to 50%. The Lion King, which Daly calls "the Star Wars of animation," earned about the same in domestic theaters as Forrest Gump did the same year. But that's chump change for animation. Toss in the video market, the merchandise and CD sales, and The Lion King has so far generated an estimated $1 billion--in profits...