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Outside the capital, the protest movement has been most visible on college campuses, where, in raising their fists against apartheid, demonstrators have also raised memories of the '60s. At the University of California, Berkeley, about 200 protesters staged a sleep-in vigil in April that culminated in 159 arrests. Harvard has seen a dozen demonstrations, including a silent ten-day vigil in front of the college's spiritual center, the statue of Founder John Harvard. At Cornell, students built a settlement of mock South African shanties and lived inside them until a fire swept through the area and the local...
There were better actors certainly, and a few were even handsomer. But to moviegoers of the 1950s and '60s, no star better represented the old-fashioned American virtues than Rock Hudson. "He's wholesome," said Look magazine in 1958. "He doesn't perspire. He has no pimples. He smells of milk. His whole appeal is cleanliness and respectability--this boy is pure." Last week as Hudson lay gravely ill with AIDS in a Paris hospital, it became clear that throughout those years the all-American boy had another life, kept secret from his public: he was almost certainly homosexual...
...acting. He gave a fine performance in Giant (1956), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award, and showed a gift for comedy in a series of romances (like Pillow Talk) that he made with Doris Day in the late '50s and early '60s. As his movie career faded, he turned to TV, demonstrating his continuing appeal in McMillan and Wife as the crime-solving San Francisco police commissioner and later in Dynasty, in which he gamely but unsuccessfully pursued Krystle (Linda Evans...
...basic techniques by which this translation is accomplished were laid out in the late '60s and early '70s by two University of Utah professors, Ivan Sutherland and David Evans, in fulfillment of a contract for the U.S. Department of Defense. Their task: to build a flight simulator for pilot training that would show on a screen the same unfolding landscape the pilot would see from the air. To do this, the Utah scientists first had to program into the computer a precise mathematical model of every tree, house and mountain in the flight path. Then they instructed the machine...
...networks' other summer offerings appear to be more viable commercial enterprises, or at least more shrewdly targeted. Nostalgia for the 1950s and '60s is the rage this summer, as the networks try to woo members of the baby-boom generation, presumably those viewers who are most likely to sample other video choices. How else to excuse Our Time, a tacky half-hour music-variety show that premiered on NBC last weekend? With Host Karen Valentine joined by guests like Night Court's Harry Anderson, the show tries to take a lighthearted look at the '50s and '60s but supplies only...