Word: berkeley
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...film's vocal, musical and painterly talents mesh ecstatically in the big water-ballet production number Under the Sea. As Sebastian limns the aquatic virtues, a Noah's aquarium of sea creatures animates a joyous Busby Berkeley palette. If ever a cartoon earned a standing ovation in mid-film, this would be it. But the whole movie is canny magic. For 82 minutes, The Little Mermaid reclaims the movie house as a dream palace and the big screen as a window into enchantment. Live-action filmmakers, see this...
Some scientists, while intrigued by the discoveries, preached caution. "Definite conclusions cannot be made," said University of California at Berkeley Professor Joseph Silk. "Although this is a significant breakthrough, we must examine different areas of the universe before we make definite conclusions, or many theories about the universe will be proven wrong prematurely...
Universities, politicians and the media continue to distort images of Asian-Americans by portraying them as outsiders and "model minorities," a noted Berkeley ethnic studies professor said at a Harvard Foundation forum last night...
Speaking to about 40 people in the Lowell House Junior Common Room, Ronald Takaki of the University of California at Berkeley stressed how images of Asian-Americans today are inaccurate when they focus completely on the minority's immigrant past...
Takaki, who heads the graduate ethnic studies program at Berkeley, said university curriculums underrepresent ethnic diversity. "We want to see our literature, our history and our culture in our curriculum," Takaki said...