Word: michael
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Jewish professors at Harvard will probably spend more time examining Jewish issues in coming years, Robert Nozick, professor of Philosophy, said yesterday in a discussion of Jewish life at Harvard with Michael L. Walzer, professor of Government...
...continent and several worlds away, Correspondent Willwerth relied on only his pen and notebook as he grilled Cover MICHAEL DRESSLER Figure Robin Williams, the otherworldly star of ABC's Mark & Mindy. "He was a pleasure," says Willwerth, "shy, thoughtful, complex, deeply concerned with his art. He is most revealing when talking about the value of 'staying bozo' as a defense against the harsher realities of life on earth." Willwerth, however, almost came unbozoed when he accompanied the comedian to a yoga class, where Williams invited him to, well, look at the world from a different perspective. "Taking...
Dissident Machine Democrat Jane Byrne, 44, a Daley protegé and for ten years commissioner of consumer sales, had become disenchanted with Michael Bilandic, 56, who, was elected two years ago to succeed the Boss. In 1977, she charged that the new mayor had "greased" the way for an unwarranted taxicab rate increase. For that insubordination, Bilandic fired her. Veterans at city hall guffawed when the angry woman announced that she would challenge Bilandic...
...dissuade him from any action in Viet Nam. In Soviet eyes, Carter's disapproval must have seemed too mild in the midst of the exciting new Chinese-American embrace. Moreover, Washington's current assurances that Sino-American normalization will continue despite the invasion, and Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal's unperturbed trip to Peking, where he discussed most-favored-nation status for China, were not lost on Moscow. Those gestures could hardly be expected to change the Soviet view that the U.S. had "at least indirectly encouraged the invasion." Even some U.S. officials privately agreed with critics...
Milton Katselas' direction of Red Ryder does not serve Medoff well. As anyone who saw Katselas' Report to the Commissioner knows, he likes to let actors chew up the scenery. Gortner's portrayal of Teddy is as overblown as Michael Moriarty's star turn in Commissioner, he is such a bundle of stylized theatrical tics that Teddy's unpleasantness never becomes psychologically interesting. He is just a shrieking, obnoxious madman, an unintentional Mad magazine parody of Al Pacino in Dog Day Afternoon...