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...movie - a dreadful Whoopi Goldberg vehicle called "The Telephone" (1988) -- had Southern's name attached to it. He was rumored to have "lost it," alcohol and drugs having blunted his satiric edge. When mentioned at all, his name was preceded by the amiable but career-killing sobriquet "swinging' sixties icon." Though his ardent admirers continued to stress the ways in which his best work continued to inspire later generations of humorists and screenwriters, the question remained: What the hell was Terry Southern doing all those years...
...Boston nobody, took over his father's fledgling movie-theater operation and built it into Viacom, a global entertainment powerhouse with brands including MTV, Nickelodeon, Blockbuster, CBS and Paramount. This is his remarkable story, from a childhood in the tenements to star lawyer and relatively late in life, business icon...
...demonstrate, Avid effects specialist Kent Petersen clicks on a video clip of two actors walking against a blue backdrop. Petersen points his cursor to a scene of a grassy field, drags it over the icon of the clip, and suddenly the actors are strolling through the field. Something's missing, though. Petersen pulls down an editing menu and clicks, and shadows appear behind the actors...
...Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53, a staunch opponent of affirmative action and grade inflation alike, announced that he would issue his students two grades-the grade he thinks they deserve and the "inflated grade" that would appear on their Harvard transcript. Students lauded the conservative campus icon-popularly known as Harvey "C-minus" Mansfield-for his change in policy. But when Mansfield blamed the rise of grade inflation in part on the increase in number of black students at the College in the 1970s, most of the applause stopped...
...Galvin will remain the icon for now, but ShuttleGirl will find other ways to keep the Harvard community guessing...