Word: goldberg
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Perez--who has served as president of the Venezualan national farmers' organization and of the national sugar industry--says that he had read and admired the work of Ray A. Goldberg, Moffet Professor of Agriculture and Business. "When you're on the farm, isolated, and someone is concerned and writes about your problems you want to meet him," says Perez...
...movies of the decade (Blade Runner, Diva, the Mad Max films), texture is text here, submerging the plot in a garage sale of 20th century detritus. Brazil is a place, like Stalin's Russia or the British welfare state, where everything is planned but nothing quite works. A Rube Goldberg spy machine kibitzes with a roving bloodshot electronic eye, then wheels away in a deranged gait. Giggling plastic surgeons do their "snip snip slice slice" with metal clamps and Saran Wrap. Sam and a man in the next office share a desk that each keeps yanking through his own side...
...magically transplants an African plain, where Nettie has gone as a missionary, behind a Georgia bush; Celie looks up from her hymnal and--wham!--a bulldozer crashes through the chancel of Nettie's church thousands of miles away. None of this bravura, though, has liberated the attractive cast. Whoopi Goldberg suffers knowingly as Celie; Danny Glover, as "Mr.," looks vainly for a note to strike besides befuddled menace; Margaret Avery inhabits Shug without illuminating her. Everyone seems reluctant to let loose here, taking a cue from their too reverent boss. Perhaps The Color Purple demanded a cannier, more daring director...
...prestigious stipends were awarded to Valerie A. Barton, of Quincy House and New York City; Andrea Fastenberg, of Dunster House and New York City; Jeffrey L. Goldberg, of Dunster House and Brookline, Mass.; and Jake Stevens, of Mather House and New Haven, Conn...
Another Rockefeller winner, Jeffrey Goldberg, proposed using his award for a journey to Senegal and Nigeria to learn about African drumming as an apprentice to traditional drummers...