Word: appeals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Berkowitz's appeal is likely to rekindle debates about the fairness of Harvard's tenure process. Last December, President Neil L. Rudenstine's tenure denial to another promising young professor, Jeffrey A. Masten, then Cowles Associate Professor in the Humanities, sparked a firestorm of complaints that the system often sends rising stars packing...
...27th letter to Knowles, Berkowitz explained his case and asked Knowles to consider his appeal because the Office of the Dean assembled the ad hoc committee that originally denied him tenure...
...then why, the movie asks, does TV nostalgia exert such a powerful appeal? The false "pleasantness" of Pleasantville is completely exposed, but not before the film, quite appropriately, derives a lot of pleasure from bringing us there. One might argue that the movie is only about the shows that our parents watched when they were growing up, which now live on in eternal reruns on Nick at Nite--but then again, The Wonder Years, a show from our own youth, has found a home on that cable station too. The nostalgia factor isn't limited...
...presidential campaign. But there was a bright silver lining for the GOP: George W. Bush's victory in the Texas gubernatorial race, where he bucked national trends by collecting almost half of the Latino vote and nearly two thirds of the women's vote, confirms his big-tent appeal. And after Tuesday's setback, that's exactly what the Republicans will need...
Josh Dare, a Divx spokesman, admits that the format won't appeal to everyone. Market research showed that people who prefer staying home and watching a video to going out for a movie and dinner were especially receptive to the endless viewing possibilities of Divx. "Think of it this way: you've got a video collection you're starting for $4.50 a movie," says Dare. Me? I'd rather go out for dinner...