Word: allene
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...writing to rebut an assertion made in The Crimson (staff editorial, "Counter Drags the Foundation Down," Oct. 25, 1994) that Dr. S. Allen Counter helped the Asian-American Association draft a letter criticizing Dean of Students Archie C. Epps...
...also attracting top stars and prestige playwrights. This month Vanessa Redgrave opens in Vita and Virginia and the Joseph Papp Public Theater premieres Sam Shepard's Simpatico. In December the Public has a new Hal Prince musical, The Petrified Prince. January brings a trio of one-acters by Woody Allen, David Mamet and Elaine May. Neil Simon, a Broadway pillar for a third of a century, made news recently when he said that mainstem plays had become too expensive to produce. Now even he is off-Broadway bound...
...statistics on parents who kill their kids vary, measured on different scales, gauging not only infanticide but other social ills as well. The FBI's most recent statistics indicate that in 1992, 662 children under the age of five were murdered. Ernest Allen, president of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, estimates that about two-thirds of those victims were killed by one or both of their parents. These figures, however, do not tell the whole story. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services calculates that in 1992 about 1,100 children died from abuse or neglect...
...least the comics themselves aren't pretending to be literary giants or anything. Allen says, "Publishers will do a book with anyone they think is hot." Reiser talks about "the consumer mentality -- we like something, what other flavor does it come in? We like that TV show, does it come in a book form? Does it come in a capsule? How about a soup...
...into a hit book. It needs a theme. Erwyn Applebaum, publisher of Bantam Books, which put Seinfeld and Reiser into print, says, "Now comedians who have never been known to read a book are thinking that they can write one." Robert Miller, publisher of Hyperion, claims his company wanted Allen to do a book well before Home Improvement became a hit: "This guy had made his reputation and (stand-up) act out of getting way deep into the complexities of male- female differences. That seemed like a very good subject...