Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Baker's speech, titled "American Foreign Policy and the Challenges of Leadership at the Century's End," was the 1996 Albert H. Gordon Lecture on Finance and Public Policy...
...actor who impressed director Mike Nichols, who came backstage after watching Lane play a Sid Caesar-like TV star in Neil Simon's Laughter on the 23rd Floor. On the spot, he offered Lane the role of Albert in a remake of the French comedy La Cage aux Folles--alongside Robin Williams, in the more sober role of Armand. Lane initially had to turn Nichols down because of a scheduling conflict with his next big Broadway show, a revival of the musical A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. But Nichols kept calling, and the show...
...match for his wildly inventive co-star. "He'd try things just as outrageous as I would," says Williams. "Hard to find someone who does that." Nichols would typically let the pair run loose with improvisations in at least one take per scene. Lane's own favorite came when Albert learns that Armand doesn't want him around to meet the uptight parents of the girl Armand's son wants to marry. Lane went high-flying hysterical, screaming to onlookers at a sidewalk cafe ("I'm a homeless person!"), then fainting dead away. "All the extras on the street applauded...
...Provost Albert Carnesale said Harvard is, like most universities, far more decentralized than the average corporation and is even more decentralized than the rest of the universities in the nation...
...love Mike Berry," said Eric D. Albert '98, speaking for the council. "He's one of the most, if not the, most responsive administrators here. We're very sorry...