Word: honored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...computer mogul spoke on corporate social responsibility after IBM was awarded the Kennedy School's George S. Dively Award for Corporate Public Initiative. The honor, which was awarded for the first time this year by the Kennedy School's Center for Business and Government, commends the corporation for its domestic programs which help the disabled, minorities and women to find jobs...
...laboratory building shared by the Harvard Medical School, a Harvard-affiliated hospital and a private medical research institute was named in honor of a former Med School professor at ceremonies last night...
Still, moviemakers have to consider moviemaking the big time--profit with honor. And in films, if not in TV, caution breeds entropy. Charges Terry Gilliam, whose Brazil is one of 1985's few demanding films to escape from the studios: "People in Hollywood are not showmen, they're maintenance men, pandering to what they think their audiences want. And so audience expectations become more simplistic. Movies have no surprises, no fizz." Right: new Hollywood is new Coke with the cap left...
...that speak to the present, not concepts or carbon copies but reverberant stories and demanding images. Says Robert Benton, whose Kramer vs. Kramer was the top-grossing film of 1979: "The most interesting development of the past year was the success of the old-fashioned thriller: Witness, Prizzi's Honor, Jagged Edge. They didn't have a teenager among them. Maybe studios will begin to rethink their policies." Kaufman dares to predict "a return to movies about relationships. The mood has changed; the divorce rate is dropping. I see 40-year-old couples standing in movie lines again...
...Islamic fundamentalists who govern Iran have never been known for tact. Iranian President Seyed Ali Khamene'i proved that anew last week during a visit to Zimbabwe, when he refused to attend a state banquet in his honor because women were present and wine was to be served. Khamene'i demanded that all women attending, including Cabinet ministers and the wife of the President, don veils and sit at a table in a far corner of the room. An hour of frantic negotiations ensued, but neither side would budge. Finally, the dinner went on without Khamene...