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...unlikely that America's saltiest president had much to do with Radcliffe College. But today, a week before University of Minnesota professor Barbara J. Nelson assumes the newly-created post of second-in-command and presidential stand-in at Harvard's appendix, it's worth remembering Johnson's words...
...better reason. The Emmy-nominated MST3K, now in its sixth season on Comedy Central, is the smart person's all-purpose entertainment event of the '90s: a deftly satirical musical-comedy puppet show that masquerades as a two-hour put-down of bad films. Three figures -- a human, Mike Nelson (played by head writer Michael J. Nelson), and two robots, Tom Servo (Kevin Murphy) and Crow (Trace Beaulieu) -- sit in front of a movie screen and, as First Spaceship to Venus or Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster or I Accuse My Parents unspools, they crack wise. That's about...
...flourishing cult status, the challenge of devising new jokes about the same old sorts of films, flirtations with Hollywood to make an MST3K feature and, last year, the departure of creator and host Joel Hodgson. His sleepy-voiced charisma was replaced by the flummoxed gentility of the baby-faced Nelson, who also composes many of the delicious song parodies (collected on two Play MST for Me videocassettes). At the convention, Conniff asked impishly, "Would now be the time to tell them we're replacing Mike with Jimmy Smits...
...atmosphere in the class, which meets at 10 a.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays in Sever 113, is casual. This Thursday, Greenblatt showed up in a black soft leather shoes, blue jeans, blue shirt and a bright green tie with a picture of South African president Nelson Mandela in the middle...
...Nelson has been on the faculty of the University of Minnesota since 1983, where she has taught political science, women's studies, social work and American studies. Since 1989, Nelson has been a professor at the University of Minnesota's Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs...