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...starving artist who made it big. He was here promoting the re-release of One Hundred Multiple Choice Questions-a prescient burlesque, it seems, of "Who Wants to Be A Millionaire"-and the small press that first published it 30 years ago, Adventures in Poetry. Edited by Larry Fagin, a iconic figure in New York underground, Adventures in Poetry was one of several dozen shoestring publishing ventures that burst onto the scene during the "Mimeo-revolution" of the 1960s. The revival of the press represents an effort both to rehabilitate the spirit of community that characterized the New York avant...
...Alec Guinness," wrote critic Kenneth Tynan admiringly, "has no face." So true. Sir Alec, who died this month at 86, was the most self-effacing screen actor imaginable, often retreating under a mountain of makeup. He borrowed the props of anti-Semitism to create a monstrously engaging Fagin for Oliver Twist. He found the proper wigs and noses and shadings for each of the eight doomed D'Ascoynes, one of them a woman, in the elegantly misanthropic high comedy that was Kind Hearts and Coronets...
...University of Pennsylvania's interim president Claire M. Fagin earned $346,919 in 1993-94, though figures on current President Judith M. Rodin's salary were not available...
Rodin will succeed Penn's interim president Claire Fagin, who took over when former president Sheldon Hackney was chosen by President Clinton to lead the National Endowment for the Humanities...
Last week the university's interim president, Claire Fagin, attempted to bury the controversy by dumping the code. Under the school's new policy, which will be completed by June, "community standards of conduct" and "informal conflict resolution" will govern disputes. Fagin shrugs off criticism that the new policy remains vague and opens the door for incorrectness. "If everybody thinks you're doing something slightly off in a highly emotional situation like this, then maybe you're doing something exactly right," she says. "In any case, it can't be worse...