Word: melissa
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...professors in other faculties--most notably at the Law School--also earn the University maximum, says Melissa Gerrity, associate dean for financial affairs. But in Arts and Sciences, financial officials place the next highest '82-'83 salary at $65,000. That fee will reportedly be garnered by libertarian philosopher Robert Nozick at 41 years old a comparatively young Faculty member. Moreover, Nozick received tenure at Harvard relatively recently, in 1969. After Nozick, officials say, tenured Faculty salaries next year will range down to $34,500, with a heavy concentration of professors earning salaries in the $40,000s...
...next year as the first time we might be able to really do something' about raising real faculty salaries. --Melissa Gerrity...
...Poltergeist-were due to be released, but on paper they did not at first look as if they were likely candidates for Hollywood immortality. Says Associate Editor Richard Corliss, who wrote the main story for this week's effort-with contributions from John Skow and Reporter-Researcher Melissa Ludtke Lincoln: "Here were two movies with no stars. Both were small budget. Together they cost much less than Annie. How important could lowbudget, horror or science-fiction films be?" The answer: so important that Corliss delayed a long-scheduled trip to the Cannes Film Festival in order to get started...
...pleasures, its gratification of the child's delight in wondering "What comes next, Daddy?" It is enough to say that E.T. stands securely in the company of some classic children's stories, from Peter Pan to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. With the crucial help of Screenwriter Melissa Mathison, who was present every day on the set, Spielberg has infused comic and dramatic tension into a story in which, one comes to realize, there are no villains. Everyone is nice, and the conflict comes from a taffy pull between good and greater good. That conflict is achingly strong...
Screenwriter Melissa Mathison, 32, who wrote the script for E.T., was struck by the unusual warmth of the production family Spielberg has gathered around him, notably Producers Frank Marshall, 35, and Kathleen Kennedy, 28. Says Mathison: "None of us is afraid to tell Steven he is wrong. He's a softy, as big a sap as anyone. But he rarely lets that show in his movies. He kept fretting that E.T. was too soft, until finally he stopped worrying about pleasing the men in the audience." Spielberg sees his relationship to Mathison as symbiotic: "Melissa is 80% heart...