Word: parts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think working on my thesis has ever been a pain in the ass, even now, with it due in 10 days," says Lori J. Curcio '89, whose history thesis will examine the "white, middle-class, corporate" environment of Disneyland in the 1950s. As part of her research, Curcio spent a day touring the Anaheim, California theme park...
...film ever made. When Vivien Leigh -- beautiful, talented, but indisputably English -- was cast in the role of the Old South's own Scarlett O'Hara, thousands of Americans reacted with patriotic fury, as if the Redcoats had burned Washington again. "Why not cast Chiang Kai-shek and change the part to Gerald O'Hara?" a correspondent indignantly demanded of Movie Mirror, one of the era's many fan magazines...
...their part, Americans wanted only to be entertained, or perhaps cooled on a hot summer's night. Until well after World War II, movie theaters and department stores were about the only places that could boast air conditioning. There were, by today's standards, relatively few public diversions; television was still a new invention. Sometime during the week, an estimated 85 million people, about two-thirds of the U.S. population, paid an average 25 cents to go to the movies, which included a cartoon and newsreel as well as the standard double feature. A double feature usually meant...
There is no formula for magic, and what happened then is something of a mystery even today. Part of the explanation may be that the studio system, which had been born 20 years or so earlier, had come of age; it had reached its maturity but was still full of zest. The bosses may have been crude and often tyrannical, but they loved their business, they knew what they were doing, and they had created huge organizations whose only purpose was to send new pictures to thousands of theaters, most of which, in the U.S., were owned by the studios...
...conserving black traditions has contributed to the reviving fortunes of the nation's 117 historically black colleges. Twenty years ago, many of the best-prepared black students turned their backs on such institutions, preferring to get their education at elite Ivy League universities. Now the tide is turning, in part because of a surge of racist incidents at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, Purdue and other prestigious colleges...