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Stephen Shoemaker, the teaching fellow for Religion 1513, “History of Harvard and its Presidents,” said Conant, a chemist by training, spent around 50 percent of his time during World War II in Washington working on the Manhattan Project...
Although many high schools denied her entrance because she was truant, in 1997 Murray enrolled at the Humanities Preparatory School, a new progressive public school in downtown Manhattan...
...EVENING WITH GORDON WILLIS. Gordon Willis, the cinematographer who turned Manhattan into a masterpiece of monochromaticism, gave The Godfather movies their distinctive yellow-and-mahogany palette and immortalized Harvard Law School in The Paper Chase, will be at the Brattle to discuss his career with MIT literature and film professor Paul Thorburn. Prior to the discussion, the Brattle will screen Willis’ favorite film from his career. What might it be? All the President’s Men? Annie Hall? Nope, it’ll be a new 35mm print of Klute, a forgotten 1971 Jane Fonda-Donald Sutherland...
...events as President George W. Bush’s State of the Union address and the Joe Millionaire finale, the extent to which war had permeated regularly scheduled programming shocked me. I watched, supine, as a series of wildly divergent film clips unrolled on the television screen: in downtown Manhattan, hundreds of protesters were flopping onto the pavement to dramatize the war’s civilian casualties. In Iraq, dusty embedded reporters were squinting at the camera and gesturing towards the sand behind them. In the major networks’ morning television studios, anchors were grasping coffee mugs and transitioning...
Just four months earlier, he had been hustling from one Philadelphia hair salon to the next, selling pound cake to women while they were being coiffed. Now Reuben Harley was reclining on a black leather couch in the midtown Manhattan recording studio of hip-hop mogul Sean (P. Diddy) Combs. The unlikely pair chatted about business, music and, most importantly, jerseys--the classic models that sports legends like Julius Erving, Nolan Ryan and Jackie Robinson used to wear...