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After player introductions, the Crimson scrimmaged, with Crimson facing White. Since the event was held to recognize the beginning of official practice, it wasn't surprising, or even a problem, that the players were not playing their sharpest...
...natural for me," she says, "to want to disappear into a dark theater." Soon she had the poise that would bloom into a regal grace under pressure in Dead Calm, Days of Thunder (where she met Cruise) and Billy Bathgate, as Dutch Schultz's posh girlfriend--her sharpest movie role before...
...sharpest blow to multinationals came in the state of Maharashtra, where right-wing politicians on Aug. 3 canceled the largest overseas investment ever made in India-a $2.8 billion electric-power plant that Enron Corp. of Houston was building near Bombay. Enron, which broke ground in March and stands to lose $300 million if it abandons the venture, is seeking talks aimed at permitting work to resume. "This is typically Indian," says Barton Biggs, chairman of Morgan Stanley Asset Management, which runs an Indian mutual fund. "For every three steps forward, they take two steps back...
...went to Los Angeles last week to blast the entertainment industry, he touched a chord that transcended the party politics his remarks were shrewdly crafted to serve. Though popular culture has a long and proud history of offending the squares, during the current decade it has particularly kept its sharpest edges to the front. Whatever is scabrous and saw-toothed and in-your-face is probably brought to you by the major labels and the big studios. For parents, the pervasive electronic culture can start to look like some suspect stranger who hangs around their kids too much, acting loutish...
...wunderkinder and their mentors who, from the 1940s on, would do much to define what serious American music was all about: Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, Virgil Thomson, Marc Blitzstein, Lukas Foss, Samuel Barber, John Cage. Rorem's feelings of admiration, doubt, jealousy and gratefulness for these figures inspire the sharpest sketches in a book crammed with sharp sketches. On two composers who straddled the concert stage and Broadway: "Lenny Bernstein would never have been quite what he was without the firm example of Marc Blitzstein, yet there's nothing Marc did that Lenny couldn't do better." On Cage: "What...