Word: heffner
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...only you could take it for credit. "Duo 101" presents Diane Heffner on clarinet and Megan Henderson on piano. Harvard-Epworth United Methodist Church, 1555 Mass. Ave. 354-0837. 5 p.m. $5 suggested donation for students...
...before it, so calculations made in October may provide an essential tool for November's assignment. Thompson's students admit they often begin hopelessly lost until, by dint of their own collaborative labors and their teacher's counsel, they find their way. ``It's the biggest satisfaction,'' says Simon Heffner, a senior. ``You don't realize you understand it and then it hits you!'' In the end, adds Thompson, ``they have knowledge that they can deploy, as opposed to just passing a test.'' It is no coincidence that Dalton began its plunge into technology with the Archaeotype program. Excavation...
...years, the rating board's chief arbiter of explosives and orifices was Richard Heffner, routinely described as one of Hollywood's most powerful men because the Stones and Scorseses had to tailor their visions to his stern standards. He recently retired from the job and was succeeded by Richard Mosk, 55, a prominent Los Angeles lawyer whose father is a justice of the California Supreme Court. This month Mosk's rating board slapped two Miramax films with an NC-17. On the basis of these decisions, the Heffner era may soon be regarded as an age of enlightenment...
...agitation over Fartman indicates Hollywood's bottom line under all the fine talk about making good films for kids. Richard Heffner, head of the industry's ratings board, appreciates this distinction. "There is some feeling that producers are looking to make more PG or PG-13 films," he observes. "I don't think that's quite true. It's truer to say that they are looking to get PG or PG-13 ratings. They don't want to make the film that most parents would consider appropriate. They're just interested in getting the rating...
...Heffner may see the NC-17 rating as a guide for concerned parents, but producers, distributors and exhibitors take it as a guide to what they can make, release and show. "NC-17 movies do not fit into our main business plan," says Thomas Pollock, chairman of the MCA/Universal Motion Picture Group. "By and large, we are designing movies as entertainment for large audiences. That is our mandate. I doubt that NC-17 will be viable unless some mainstream movie is willing to go out with the label. Otherwise the category has no real meaning, because no one's using...