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...anymore. In fact, they were filled with splashes of red, brown and even green. For the first time since people began letting their fingers do the walking 100 years ago, multicolor advertisements are being printed in the Yellow Pages. These eye-catching ads, first introduced last November in the Champaign, Ill., phone book, now appear in ten markets, including Orlando, Cincinnati, and Springfield...
...academia, several surveys have shown that Citizen Kane is by far the most thoroughly explicated film. So there is a place in the classroom for The Making of Citizen Kane. Robert L. Carringer, an associate professor of English and cinema studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, hardly mentions the actors in Citizen Kane, much less what the film means or represents, but he is exhaustive in his analyses of the art direction, the photography, the special effects, the sound track...
...impassioned all-star antiapartheid record, Sun City, and the congenial reverberations from last week's FarmAid, the concert that featured top rock and country-and-western talent drumming up support for the American farmer. Both the Sun City record and the FarmAid concert, held at a football stadium in Champaign, Ill., celebrate a unity within the music community even as they signal a further deepening of social awareness...
...1960s protests against campus military research. This time, however, the dissension is led not by radical leftist undergraduates but by professors and graduate students. Anti-Star Wars petitions are circulating on at least 48 campuses, from the University of Utah to Princeton. At the University of Illinois at Champaign- Urbana, 53 of the 70 full professors in the physics department, which is the second largest in the U.S., have pledged not to seek SDI funds and signed a statement that calls the program "deeply misguided, dangerous and enormously expensive." About half the engineering and physics faculty members at Cornell have...
...blends western and pop music, has garnered support from across the musical spectrum. Pop stars like John Cougar Mellencamp, as well as Country Veterans Waylon Jennings and Merle Haggard, will be joined by old-time Rockers Bob Dylan and Neil Young for the twelve- hour extravaganza. Many residents of Champaign are opening their homes to the 78,000 people scheduled to attend...