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There have been some subtle changes around the town square of Greenfield, Iowa (pop. 2,244), where the real grass roots grow. The Ideal Cafe, dispensary of ribaldry, weak coffee and occasional political wisdom, has metamorphosed into Toad's Place, so named for a town boy who went to California but in the nick of time saved his soul, bought the business and headed back...
...real-life celebrities Gene Shalit, 51, Ruth Gordon, 87, and Shari Belafonte, 29, along with Model Barbara Reynolds, who looks an awful lot like Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Unamused, Onassis filed court papers charging that the advertisement had violated her privacy and exploited her image commercially. New York Justice Edward Greenfield last week agreed and barred Reynolds from appearing in any advertisements masquerading as Jackie O. Quoting no less an authority than Shakespeare, Greenfield wrote: "Who steals my purse steals trash ... But he that filches from me my good name robs me of that which not enriches him and makes...
ESSENTIALLY, Reynolds came across last Wednesday night as television's shining knight, remembered in the most glowing terms by those who knew him best. "He was not someone you could push around," said NBC's Tom Brokaw. ABC's media critic Jeff Greenfield said Reynolds never favored," "style over substance," as so many in the television industry do. CBS's Harry Reasoner was among the few who tried to put things in perspective, cautioning, "I don't think Frank would like to be pictured as the last of a vanishing breed." But, he quickly added, "What...
There was general agreement that most of today's games were pervaded by violent themes. Yet these games, typically complex, with many things happening simultaneously, foster inductive reasoning, argued Patricia Greenfield, a professor of psychology at U.C.L.A. She maintained that a child who can manipulate an array of buttons to gauge the pull of gravity and the thrust of a spaceship, all the while evading invaders and firing off missiles, is using complex cognitive skills. This is what she called "parallel processing," the ability to evaluate many variables simultaneously. "Video games are like life," she said. "You must learn...
Robert J. Greenfield Washington...