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...perhaps predictable. Ever since he finished Kramer vs. Kramer in 1979, Hoffman had been looking for a script that would permit him to explore the questions "What makes someone a man? What makes someone a woman?" He batted the theme around with a friend, Playwright Murray Schisgal. By the time he and Pollack (who followed Dick Richards and Hal Ashby as director) joined forces, he had acquired not only various draft scripts but a ferocious proprietary interest in the film. Says Hoffman: "The great scripts don't drop out of the sky; you have to invent them...
With the help of a Madison Avenue lawyer named Murray Schwartz. Sliwa has written a book called Streetsmart: The Guardian Angel Guide to Safe Living The paperback has an eye-catching glossy cover photo of Sliwa and some Angels standing on a street in tough-guy poses usually found on the covers of heavy-metal rock albums or comic books. It underscores the way Sliwa has marketed himself and his ideas in a tasteless, often crass manner...
...Murray Feshbach, America's leading expert on Soviet population trends, believes that the present 2% rate of Soviet economic growth could drop to zero or even go into the minus column because of more shortages of skilled labor, especially in European Russia, where most of the country's industry is situated...
...conservative upsurge is not entirely spontaneous. Reviving the right on campus has been a deliberate goal of the Institute for Educational Affairs, a New York-based foundation, whose roster of directors, which includes Authors Irving Kristol and Michael Novak and Economist Murray Weidenbaum, looks like a Who's Who among conservatives. Funded by other foundations and by dozens of corporations, the I.E.A. since 1980 has financed academic research and has given a total of more than $100,000 to some 15 student publications, in many cases enabling their birth. A grant made last Friday will launch a paper...
...laureate is one of six children of the noted Harvard chemist E. Bright Wilson. At eight, he could calculate cube roots in his head. After graduating from Harvard in 1956, he studied for his doctorate at Caltech under Murray Gell-Mann, the 1969 Nobel laureate in physics. One of his favorite spare-time activities is folk dancing, in particular the rousing Swedish hambo...