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...SUBVERSIVE," Lisa has quite a record. Back at public high school in Croton-Harmon, a small town outside of New York, Lisa's guidance counselor did her a favor of informing the colleges Lisa had applied to of her radical activities in and out of school. Activities like organizing school cafeteria fasts to raise money for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and antiwar agitation. Lots of students were agitators in their local high schools but few stepped beyond the bounds of practical wisdom and got themselves thrown out of high school. Agitating against...
...story Empire State Building dominated the skyline, tallest of the tall in a city of proud skyscrapers. Then, last year, the twin towers of the World Trade Center rose eight stories higher. Feeling dwarfed by these brash new comers, Robert W. Jones, vice president of Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, the original Empire architects, reflected: "Here's a building that's been the tallest building for 40 years, and now it's no longer the tallest." As Jones tells it:"Almost with tongue in cheek, I thought that maybe we could add a few floors...
...KIRT R. HARMON...
Says Don Cash, who created the series along with fellow American Bill Harmon: "We're not making great television. We were asked by a commercial TV station to produce a program that appeals to a mass market and makes money. That is all we set out to do." In fact, the production is amateurish, with spotty acting and poor camera work and direction to match the inane script. Still, so overwhelming has been its Australian success that the producers are looking for export markets. Because the show is black and white-and slightly blue -the U.S., perhaps fortunately...
...time clock. As it is, the instructors work a rigid eight-hour schedule in 38 identical soundproofed cubicles, turning out penciled marginal comments and lengthy typewritten critiques on six or seven student assignments a day. "We want to be treated like professionals and less like production-line workers," argues Harmon Strauss, a former Radio Free Europe writer who is Local 427's shop steward...