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...other day I caught an episode of the old Batman television series, starring Adam West as millionaire Bruce Wayne and his masked alterego, and Burt Ward as the Boy Wonder...
...horse tricks, clowns, acrobats and a band. This array has changed surprisingly little in two hundred years. In 1770, Philip Astley, a skilled equestrian who could ride balanced on his head, brought together in one ring "Chinese Shadows, Tumbling, Slack-Rope Vaulting, Egyptian Pyramids" and a clown named Burt. Flocks of Londoners paid a shilling to see the show, the first modern circus...
Kermit Roosevelt III '93, a philosophy concentrator in Winthrop; Phillip M. Cheng '93, a biochemical sciences concentrator in Cabot; Sean M. Williford '93, a linguistics concentrator in Mather; Sohrab Ismail-Beigi '93, a physics concentrator in Quincy; Stephen L. Burt '93, an English and American literature and language concentrator in Adams; and Stephen M. Cox, a history major in Cabot, were also selected on the basis of grade point average, recommendations and overall coursework...
...movie star playing a humorless ingenue -- a Bruce Willis type and, say, a Julia Roberts type. He asked Willis and Roberts. "They were the first people we chose. I was going to start going from there -- I never dreamed we'd get both of them." He also got Burt Reynolds, Jack Lemmon, Rod Steiger, Cher and a horde of other six- and seven-figure actors to play themselves for a few hundred dollars apiece. "None of them were paranoid," Altman says. "None of them came wanting to read the script, none of them...
...A.C.L.U. opposes the Massachusetts initiative for much the same reason it argued against previous MacKinnon-Dworkin bills. Pornography no doubt causes harm, says Burt Neuborne, the union's former national legal director. But to suppress it, under First Amendment rules, "you have to show, in addition to the harm, that there is no other societal way of dealing with a problem than censorship. Here, the current bills fail...