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...There aren't too many schools I would have left Rochester for," said Locker, who accepted Harvard's offer in May, "but it is of paramount importance to me to work in an academic environment that isat the very...
...strong biological influence, they are hardly conclusive. One problem: Are the differences in brain tissue the cause or the result of differences in behavior? "You've always got to keep in mind that experience changes the brain," stresses June Reinisch, director of the Kinsey Institute. And if nature is paramount, why don't identical twins always have the same sexual orientation...
Many sports fans instinctively feel that athletics, like art, is an area of life where money should not be paramount; the thing itself, the game, should be. But isn't there a middle ground somewhere between amateurism and full- court-press plutocracy? The demand by the I.O.C. that no one earn money strictly for an appearance in the Games is one indication of the enduring strength of the Olympic ideal. The fact that one non-N.B.A. basketball player, Christian Laettner, has been included on the American squad seems to be yet another bow to the notion of sport...
...things to remember. One: Murphy may have wrangled with his employers at Paramount Pictures, feeling they undervalued him and failed to scour the town for the most suitable projects, but people never stopped going to his films. Harlem Nights earned a respectable $60 million at the North American box office; Another 48 HRS., $80 million. Two: he hasn't lost his potential. "There are only a few others -- Robin Williams, Billy Crystal, Steve Martin -- in Eddie's league as a brilliant comic talent," says Jeffrey Katzenberg, the Disney sachem who worked with the young Eddie at Paramount and is shepherding...
...Paramount teamed them for six more pictures. But Von Sternberg was a Svengali who used his Trilby less as a performer than as another element in his lush decor -- and an androgynous one at that. It suited him to dress her in white tie and tails (and to have her kiss a woman before she embraced Gary Cooper in Morocco). At first Dietrich fit into Hollywood's pantheon of sexual ambiguity somewhere between Greta Garbo and Mae West. Von Sternberg did nothing to soften her exotic sexual challenge or penetrate her masklike countenance, both of which were largely his creations...