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Other departments this year heard from professors who saw no reason to leave their current posts to come here. Allan F. Gibbard, a University of Michigan philosopher, turned down a tenure, offer because of a "comfortable family situation," according to Department Chairman Robert Nozick, Mark Griffith, a classics scholar at Berkeley, rejected tenure at Harvard, explaining, "I like it here very much...
Such nostalgic-and telling-reminders of the way we once were are increasingly available to the TV viewer. Nearly half the homes in the U.S. can tune in to a Lucy rerun. Such venerable series as Hogan 's Heroes and the Andy Griffith Show have been selling in syndication for more money than ever. "In the past ten years, there has been a significant increase in the number of independent stations," says Dennis Gillespie, a senior vice president of Viacom International, the world's major supplier of syndicated shows. "And those stations are buying more and more syndicated...
Moviest and TV are probably the most effective means of persuasion ever devised. Sixty-six years ago, D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation was the history of the Civil War for many moviegoers; so far as millions of TV watchers are concerned, Roots told them all they need to know about slavery. A vivid new movie, Missing, promises to be similarly potent for audiences around the world, suggesting that the U.S. not only helped mastermind the 1973 coup in Chile, but condoned the murder of a young American who stumbled upon the secret. The question being debated...
...brick-walled Deja Vu, which looks like a Greenwich Village coffeehouse, is on the eastern frontiers of Hollywood Boulevard. The Studio Theater Playhouse, which is currently premiering a delightful musical version of Ray Bradbury's story Dandelion Wine, is in a working-class neighborhood near Los Angeles' Griffith Park, surrounded by warehouses. In a vacant lot next door to the Playhouse, a guard dog snarls at patrons from behind a chain-link fence. Inside, a remarkably sophisticated set recreates a cheerful Illinois town...
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