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...than on getting money and instant gratification. Notes Arnold Goldstein, director of the Center for Research on Aggression at Syracuse University: "We are a nation whose role models, Presidents and leaders on Wall Street have set a tone in the country -- 'I'm going to get mine.' " If the big-shot investment banker can take what he wants, often by illegal means, then a teenager may think he should be able to grab the spoils in the only way he knows how. Declares Harvard psychiatrist Robert Coles: "Our culture accentuates instinct instead of inhibiting...
Instead we have Ollie. Having created him, how to account for him? Pick your theory: depressed country looking for hero, underdog hounded by gray- flanneled Congressmen, commando abandoned by his White House superiors, all- American boy put upon by hippie (Nields), then big-shot N.Y. lawyer (Liman), etc. But before the great American celebrity machine, which marries Tiny Tim on the Carson show and deploys Itzhak Perlman on The Hollywood Squares, a little humility is in order. Bands of sociologists are already in deep retreat trying to explain the ineffable Vanna White. Pity them and the mavens at work...
...studies are. Take the movie Heartburn, with Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson, two of the most acclaimed actors today. Mike Nichols, one of the eighties' hottest directors, controlled the process; and the screenplay was taken from a best-selling roman a clef by Nora Ephron, the former wife of big-shot Washington journalist Carl Bernstein. Hmmmm. Yeah, you know the producers were dreaming of a blockbuster and nine Academy awards from the moment they started shooting. With all that build-up, you've got to be disappointed...
...weapons, immigration or the Caribbean. Heading the ticket at the Forum at the Institute of Politics is Notre Dame President and general academic big-wig the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, speaking on "Science, Religion, and the Nuclear Menace" also at the K-School tonight in an adjoining room is Sen. Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.), one of the chief proponents of immigration reform in recent years, speaking on, you guessed it. "The Politics of Immigration Reform"....another big-shot coming to Harvard this week is Jamaica's Prime Minister and free-market fan Edward Seaga. He speaks tonight at the Law School...
...People think I'm a big-shot movie star, and some of wr my friends have started to treat me differently. But I tell them I'm just like any other kid on the street. This hasn't changed me at all." It is easy to take fame when you're 80 or 8½, which Justin Henry is now. And his four-month plunge into the glamorous world of big stars and big movies affected him about as much as a summer at camp. It was, he insists, "no big thing...