Word: berkeley
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Berkeley, Calif...
...sharpie named Steve Martin. Seems he's been breaking and entering the great movie genres of the past. Martin started off cleverly enough. Who cared that with The Jerk he was stealing from Jerry Lewis? But then, made reckless by success, the guy ransacked the old Busby Berkeley musicals and called the forgery Pennies from Heaven. Now he's pulled off his most daring heist. He's stolen from the tough-guy movies of the '40s, intercutting scenes of himself as a private eye with scenes from some fine old films, with some fine old friends...
...then there are the budgets which student government activists around the Ivy League can only dream of. At the University of California at Berkeley, the gargantuan Associated Students of the University of California government manages a whopping $10.5 million budget annually and employs 90 full-time and 450 part time employees. The activities fee at the 30,000 student campus is about $9 a quarter with the majority of the government's income coming from student stores a restaurant and other activities in the student government-owned four-story student center and accompanying eight-story office building (Another...
...Berkeley Student Body President Steven A. Anderson cites a $13,000 registration and draft counseling center and an $8,000 legal clinic along with the large sums given to about 150 campus groups and a lecture-note service as just a few of the ways in which undergraduates can benefit from the body's structure. He firmly believes that these elements of the autonomous government--much more than policy-making--are the core of the structure's legitimacy. Even at Ivy League schools where the budgets are considerably smaller, leaders reiterate the importance of funding. Says Princeton's Saxon: "When...
...fall was even swifter than his rise. He was a political innocent who had never read a newspaper or current-affairs magazine until he was in his mid-30s and did not hear, incredibly enough, about the Great Crash of 1929 until long after it had happened. At Berkeley he associated mostly with leftists-his lover and his brother were both Communists-and although he was never a Communist himself, he lent his name to left-wing organizations...