Word: aaron
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Aaron Siskind: Fifty Years: By Clifford S. Ackley, West Wing, Museum of Fine Arts...
...undercover for stories. The apparent model, again, is Miami Vice, but the show looks more like an '85 version of The Mod Squad. The season's biggest howler is Hollywood Beat, another Miami Vice-influenced show about a pair of undercover cops who patrol seedy Hollywood Boulevard. Creator Aaron Spelling's vision of Hollywood's "raw underbelly" features a ludicrous gallery of street folk (good-hearted prostitutes, a "cute" bag lady and a caped wacko called Captain Crusader) who could be refugees from a Walt Disney version of Freaks...
...Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta advises that most children suffering from AIDS, unless they are handicapped, unable to control body secretions or given to biting other children, should be allowed to attend school. But many local officials wonder if the experts are underestimating the threat. Protests Marvin Aaron, a district superintendent in Queens: "I don't want all the medical experts telling me 'Don't worry.' I'm worrying." His School District No. 27 went to court last week to block the enrollment of the student with AIDS, apparently a girl whose disease is said to be in remission...
...fact, the Reagan Administration not only wants states to assume new responsibilities, in some cases it is forcing them to do so by reducing federal programs. Says Brookings Institution Tax Specialist Henry Aaron: "In an atmosphere where specific expenditure programs are getting cut, it is a little hard on the states to say we are also going to go cold turkey next year on denying deductibility." Norman Beckman, director of the Council of State Governments, referring to the 1978 California tax-cutting measure that hit many city and county governments hard, warned that loss of deductibility would have "a Proposition...
...ethics? Short answer: Are you kidding? Long answer: Check out the movie imperfectly titled Perfect, in which John Travolta is, as usual, miscast, this time as the journalist; Jamie Lee Curtis is rendered grim by the unaccustomed effort of thought; and Director James Bridges (who wrote the script with Aaron Latham) proves he has no rhythm. As a concept in search of a plot, the picture will infuriate those who come for the jiggles and giggles while offending those dear souls still foolish enough to seek high-mindedness at the movies in the summer...