In the summer of 1971, when an ambitious Shore rat named Bruce Springsteen was playing at an Asbury Park bar called the Student Prince and writing songs for his first album, a band called Norman Seldin and the Joyful Noyze was playing at the Wonder Bar down the road.
By David Remnick June 18 , 2011In the summer of 1971, when an ambitious Shore rat named Bruce Springsteen was playing at an Asbury Park bar called the Student Prince and writing songs for his first album, a band called Norman Seldin and the Joyful Noyze was playing at the Wonder Bar down the road.
Legions of ambitious photographers, from Stephen Shore to Thomas Struth, have tested themselves against this standard, taking pictures all over the place that highlight the world's strange ordinariness.
This week he presented a $275bn plan, more ambitious than expected, aimed at shoring up the US housing market.
On these shores its most ambitious broadcasting move in recent years has been a move into commissioning more original, homegrown shows for its key channels MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon.
Furthermore, bringing ambitious and entrepreneurial students to our shores delivers a compounded effect on the U.S. economy.
This time, media attention did not quickly die down: buoyed, no doubt, by the huge ransom paid in the Le Ponant case, Somali pirates embarked on an ambitious campaign, striking ever farther from their own shores.
At home, this means a more ambitious agenda to spur job creation on our shores, increase the pool of skilled workers, and strengthen re-employment assistance.
"Barbary Shore" and "The Deer Park" are formally ambitious books, but they are impersonal, in the aesthetic of the times.
I'm personally waiting for some of LG's, shall we say, more ambitious handsets to make to their way to our shores, but until that happens, we'll have to make do with devices like the LG Lucid 4G.
IT'S easy to be mesmerised by China: the double-digit growth, the ambitious space programme, the shining new cities along its teeming shore, the prospect of selling to the largest and one day perhaps the richest market on earth.
