Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Remember Cleopatra-that wildly ballyhooed Elizabeth Taylor-Richard Burton extravaganza of 1963? Executives of 20th Century-Fox wish they could forget; the movie cost $41 million to make, but has taken in considerably less than that at the box office. Yet much of the movie industry is acting as if it has in fact forgotten the big-budget flops that brought several major studios to the brink of financial ruin in the 1960s. Once again, studio heads-this time backed by the resources of conglomerates that have bought up most of the studios-are pouring huge sums into feature films...
Dean Rosovsky announced that Burton S. Dreben '49, whose three-year term as dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences ends in June, will be replaced by Peter S. McKinney, now administrative dean of the GSAS...
This Henry is a platoon sergeant rather than lord of the realm. It is not only his gawky stance that denies the cleverness and kingliness of Henry V's character, but also his brusquely rushed vocal delivery that seems to mimic Richard Burton's voice without offering any of its sumptuously resonant timbre...
...still admires people who sacrifice money and security for independence and freedom, but he takes a more charitable view of those who don't, as in one of the album's best cuts, a ballad called "Night Riders' Lament". One gets the impression that his friend Mike Burton wrote it as a sort of tribute to anyone who's ever done what he wanted instead of what he was expected to do. The narrator is a cowboy who fled the city for a simpler, older way of life, to the bafflement of his friends. One of them writes...
That committee includes Rosovsky, George F. Carrier, acting dean of Engineering and Applied Physics, Burton S. Dreben '49, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and Francis M. Pipkin, associate dean of the Faculty for the Colleges...