Surrounded by the university's Gothic Revival buildings on one side and the city's traditional main street on the other, the trapezoidal museum evokes a shimmering spaceship from a distant world.
Given what's happened to the U.S. music business since--slumping sales every year since they peaked in 1999--it all seems like a distant world now, with Yetnikoff a relic of that bygone era.
The huge exception has been Yugoslavia, seen in 1989 as a template of multi- ethnicity and pluralism, a halfway house between centrally planned socialism and the harsh and distant world of Western capitalism.
And a distant world discovered in February called GJ 667Cc, orbiting a star 22 light years away from Earth, has an ESI value of 0.85, the highest ranking so far of any confirmed potentially habitable planet.
They tend to view him as someone at home in academic and political debate but distant from the business world.
No rock is too high, no world too distant as Mr Dalton leaps the giant stage in a leggy one-two-three.
More conservative Amish tend to live in more secluded places, and their lifestyle restrictions can make the outside world seem distant and intimidating, Kraybill said.
What does it take to make people in developed countries more aware of these life-and-death issues happening in what can seem like distant parts of the world?
Decisions that will affect markets, food supplies, energy production, and lives around the world from a distant corner of China.
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Most people believe that money is the primary motivator for top salespeople and that doing good for the world runs a distant second.
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The right place to start is with a common vision not of some distant future but of the world we seek for our children and our grandchildren.
In this new battleground in the cultural wars of the Muslim world, a distant mirror of the religious wars that shook Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries, Malian musicians are taking a stand.
In the 1980s, the Internet was a distant concept for most of the world.
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For the first time in history, the rest of the world turned to watch this distant little country.
The Chinese government's dream of dominating the world car market still seems distant.
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At the same time we have connected the world through cyberspace, allowing distant events, ideas and social phenomena to influence us instantly.
Then Bolt broke his first world record with Gay a distant second.
She is one of the wealthiest women in Spain, has more titles recognized than any noble in the world, and is a distant relative of Winston Churchill and Diana, Princess of Wales.
Yet in too many parts of the world, similar progress remains a distant dream.
Galeano, perhaps writing as a native of a country whose World Cup glories belong in a distant golden age, would surely appreciate the therapeutic qualities of a great football match.
Such solutions are clearly some way off commercial development, but with Apple rumored to be designing its hotly-anticipated iWatch around a power source based on kinetic and solar power, a battery-free world isn't such a distant dream.
Malaria was becoming a distant memory 50 years ago, but the World Health Organization now reports that over 200 million people contract the disease each year and nearly one million people die from the disease each year.
Those who think China is destined to be the world economic leader in the not too distant future need look no further than Japan in the 1980s to see that momentum cannot overcome structural flaws.
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If that is true, the resemblance to the world of Kafka is no longer so very distant.
Giuliani had always been obsessively overprepared, and now Siegel could only surmise that in the years since the World Trade Center bombings Giuliani had become too distant from the fray.
Despite growing interest in their troubles, that seems a distant prospect for those languishing on the edge of the working world.
It would probably require a deal on world trade in agriculture, for instance a distant prospect.
The real world flickers on the horizon, its skyscrapers shimmering like distant stars.
One can argue that it is not America's job to fix the world's problems, to stop the killings in distant lands even if, as we now know, those killings involve horrific weapons banned by international agreements that set a limit to our inhumanity even in times of war.
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