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...students of old high Hollywood to name a mid-century director named Mann and they might say Delbert, whose credits include the Academy Award-winning Marty, or Daniel, who won the International Prize at Cannes for Come Back, Little Sheba. Well, Anthony Mann had it all over "dreary Daniel and Delbert," as film critic Andrew Sarris pegged them, yet during his life he got nothing like their peer recognition, receiving not so much as an Oscar nomination for his directorial work. A more appropriate Mann would be Michael, whose big-screen version of his Miami Vice TV series opens this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Mann | 7/28/2006 | See Source »

...share these interesting and inspiring stories with Harvard and the surrounding community.” The Ghanaian-born Yiadom came to the United States at age seven and settled in Chicago. Now a Lowell House resident, she is set to graduate with a government degree next month. MIT student Delbert A. Green II, who raised $50,000 while in high school to study kidney stones, spoke about his childhood in a dangerous section of Opelousas, La. Miles A. Johnson ’08, a social studies concentrator, spoke of going to Cuba on a high school academic program?...

Author: By Ryshelle M. Mccadney, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Young Scholars Lauded For Tenacity | 5/22/2006 | See Source »

...billion in deficit reduction for 1986 would supposedly come from curtailing the practice of contracting out to private industry such services as security and cleaning for federal buildings. The House, defying decades of experience, assumes that the Government could perform these functions far more cheaply itself. "Baloney," scoffs Congressman Delbert Latta, ranking Republican on the House Budget Committee. A committee staffer concedes that the figure was reached not after careful study but by "aneducated guess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cooking the Books | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

...Five: Delbert Mann, Marty; Jerome Robbins, West Side Story; Robert Redford, Ordinary People; James L. Brooks, Terms of Endearment; and Kevin Costner, Dances with Wolves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Oscar Challenge | 2/28/2000 | See Source »

...course it did, says Anna Jones, Cary's aunt and Delbert's sister. Delbert and Kay were after nothing more than a small-town stake in a Central Valley farm community, Delbert punching a clock as a mechanic, Kay grabbing whatever service jobs she could find. It wasn't easy or grand, but it was a life, and in an instant, it was gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Shade Of His Brother | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

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