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Administrators at schools that offer porn studies find themselves caught between their desire for cutting-edge scholarship and their reluctance to stir up controversy. "I wish I had more faculty doing this kind of exciting work," says David Penniman, a dean at Buffalo who oversees Halavais' cyberporn course. Penniman acknowledges that the graphic images used in the class may upset some people, but, he adds, "it's tricky for a dean or university president to try to dictate what should or shouldn't be in the syllabus." It's especially tricky at state schools where legislators help determine school funding...
...junk-bond market, which finances many takeover deals. Only $11 billion of junk bonds were issued for mergers and acquisitions in the first nine months of 1989, in contrast to $26 billion during the same period a year ago. "Investors are becoming more sophisticated and cynical," says Kingman Penniman, a Vermont-based investment adviser. "They are no longer willing to finance every buyer's fantasy of using somebody else's money to leverage and strip a company and get rich. The days of the free ride are over...
HOSPITALIZED. Richard Penniman, 52, Evangelical minister who as the flashy, flamingly androgynous wailer Little Richard helped usher in the rock revolution in the '50s with such hits as Tutti Frutti and Long Tall Sally; with a broken leg and bruised ribs, received when he lost control of a sports car and hit a telephone pole; in Los Angeles...
Part spiritual and part sexual, that exclamation is about as neat as the package gets: a tidy summation of the worldly power as well as the almost religious delirium of good old rock 'n' roll. The phrase was popularized by Mr. Richard Penniman of Macon, Ga., who used it both as a song title and as a kind of revival call-and-response as he rocked, in concert, with the forces of Satan. Mr. Penniman, known to a wondering world as Little Richard, let blast with rock of such demented power, performed from the 1950s through...
MARRIED. Steve Van Zandt, 32, rock guitarist for the E Street Band, and Dancer Maureen Santoro, 32; both for the first time; in New York City. The minister was rock-'n'-roll legend Little Richard (Evangelist Richard Penniman), the best man Van Zandt's sometime boss Bruce Springsteen...