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...Patrick Swayze reminded me a lot of Gene Kelly. Patrick had that Everyman quality. Gene made dancing sort of an accessible idea for the regular guy out there. I felt Michael Jackson was inspired a little bit more from the elegance of a Fred Astaire. Michael loved Sammy Davis Jr. and James Brown and Judy Garland and Fred Astaire. But he wasn't any of those people. To be inspired is one thing, but he made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Director Kenny Ortega on Michael Jackson's Film | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

...educated general reader’ [to describe our audience], but no one is quite sure who that reader is anymore,” says Kirsten Gruesz, Professor of Literature at University of California, Santa Cruz, an editorial board member and contributor of entries on Richard Dana, Jr. and “Mexico in America.” “It’s people who aren’t academics, who don’t necessarily see themselves as big-time readers, but who still maintain intellectual interests and want to know how to think about the world...

Author: By Denise J. Xu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Turning Over an Old Page | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

Quotes About: • "His natural talent is cutting a deal that everybody can live with." - John C. Coffee Jr., a law professor at Columbia University, where Feinberg once taught (New York Times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Compensation Czar Kenneth Feinberg | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

...Elements of Style,” by William Strunk, Jr...

Author: By Kate A Borowitz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Books in FM's Lamont-Worthy Collection | 10/22/2009 | See Source »

Classmate and activist Bill Fletcher Jr. ’76 describe Ho as a “dynamo...

Author: By Samantha L. Connolly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fred Ho ’79, Fearless and Radical | 10/22/2009 | See Source »

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