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...hope to justify his and Derek Bok’s confidence in me by trying to reinforce such a successful foundation and to help the Center move into some number of new activities and directions,” he said. During the next academic year, Schauer will be the Eastman visiting professor at Oxford University and a professorial fellow of Balliol College. Arthur I. Applbaum, a professor of ethics and public policy at the Kennedy school, will serve as the interim director of the center until July 1, 2008. Schauer’s interests include constitutional law, freedom of expression...
...generations ago, George Eastman, founder of Eastman Kodak, gave Rochester a movie house. Better than that, he commissioned a brilliant young painter to create posters of the films on view. Alas, many of those celluloid epics have long since been turned into banjo picks, but the artwork survives in Movie Posters: The Paintings of Batiste Madalena (Abrams; 64 pages; $14.95). Here the famous and the forgotten are captured in the forceful style of art deco. Once upon a screen, these vamps, clowns and pirates romanced in a world of black and white. But outside the theater, Madalena made them leap...
...force in the decrepit red-light district of Hamburg; their subsequent return to Liverpool; the sudden stardom; their appearance on Ed Sullivan and Beatlemania in America; their reinvention amid the “Sergeant Pepper” years; and finally, the break-up, infamously hastened by tensions from Linda Eastman and Yoko...
...Brooks had gone to Rochester at the urging of James Card, head of the George Eastman House film division, where she busied herself in research on silent films. It was there she found a second career, writing memoir-essays on her early days. These trenchant pieces, on Chaplin and W. C. Fields, Gish and Garbo, and of course Pabst and Pandora's Box, were collected in the volume Lulu in Hollywood, and proved Brooks a stranger creature than the moguls could imagine: a beauty with a brain. The flapper could write...
Parker's characters are so tough and self-assured, you want to grab the lapels of their leather jackets and tell them, as Max Eastman once told Hemingway, to come out from behind the false hair on their chest. But Parker is always a breezy read, and in this, his 34th Spenser mystery, the macho posturing is tempered by a plot that turns on his hero's vulnerability and one of his good deeds gone bad. A runaway he rescued from a life of low-rent prostitution (by putting her in the care of a high-priced madam...