Word: neils
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...Hairspray, has signed on to play a divorced mother of two in an ABC pilot. More Roseanne than Will & Grace, the show will include "no acknowledgment that this is a man playing a woman, no winking at the camera," says Craig Zadan, who is developing the project with Neil Meron, his co-executive producer on the film Chicago. Fierstein will sport wigs and makeup for the role and may have romantic encounters...
...drink and drive; but on the Harvard campus shuttle bus service is abundant, and few students have the cars necessary to commit such a dangerous offense. The University has taken a principled stand and defied state and federal laws in the past. During his tenure, former University President Neil L. Rudenstine spoke openly against the drinking age of twenty-one. The College should honor this legacy and no longer tacitly bow to the state’s prohibitions; Harvard cannot afford to let this law limit its ability to educate students...
...cultural infantilization creep up on us? In The Disappearance of Childhood, a wonderful little book first published in 1982, Neil Postman, a New York University professor who died this month, identified a shift from a culture based on literature - on reading - to one based on the image. In a preliterate world, there's no distinction between children and adults. Look at a Bruegel painting, and you see adults eating, drinking, groping, necking, together with their children. Literacy changed all that. Reading has to be learned; it separates the world of the child from that of the adult. But children...
...DIED. NEIL POSTMAN, 72, spirited social critic and New York University professor who formulated thought-provoking warnings on TV and other mass media; of lung cancer; in New York City. In more than 17 books and 200 articles, he cast a critical eye on the "information revolution," warning that its onslaught could lead to "culture death...
...been here three years, and I’ve gotten to see two great quarterbacks, Neil Rose [’02-’03] and now Ryan [Fitzpatrick], who’s an outstanding quarterback,” Schires said. “So you learn a lot just sitting on the sidelines...