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...both Broadway and the movies - not that either medium took much notice. From 1937 to 1939 she appeared in nine two-reel musicals, made in New York for 20th Century-Fox and Warner Bros. And she hoofed in the chorus of shows with scores by some pretty sharp tunesmiths: Harold Rome (Sing Out the News), Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein (Very Warm for May ), Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart (Higher and Higher) and Cole Porter (Panama Hattie). In three of those shows she shared stage space with Vera Ellen, who would join Allyson in MGM musicals; in another she played...
...least to the 1955 Blackboard Jungle. The setting: a high school with such a rotten history that it has been destroyed (and rebuilt) six times. Seven may be the charm, since one of the students is a decent kid: our hero, Kamiyama (dishy Takamasa Suga). In the first reel, he writes a letter home: "Oh, mom I?m a bit confused. Everyone looks like a yakuza." That?s not quite fair to the rain-gutter coalition on view at CHS. There?s gorilla sitting at one classroom desk, and a prancing tough guy called the Queen (Freddie Mercury with Toshiro...
...deanship as FAS faces possible deficits yet again, resulting from a billion-dollar building boom and rapid growth in the Faculty’s ranks. The FAS Resources Committee said in January that the school could face a $100 million deficit in 2010 if it does not reel in spending, ramp up fundraising, or dip further into the endowment.In an interview Monday, Knowles, the Houghton professor of chemistry and biochemistry, said he was not ready to commit to any changes in policy.“I am probably known as a fiscal conservative, and I like to build on secure...
...deanship as FAS faces possible deficits yet again, resulting from a billion-dollar building boom and rapid growth in the Faculty’s ranks. The FAS Resources Committee said in January that the school could face a $100 million deficit in 2010 if it does not reel in spending, ramp up fundraising, or dip further into the endowment...
...spewing bullets around them. "Where's it coming from?" a Marine yells. Immediately, shooting opens up from a second direction. Jones gets his men to the roof to repel the two-sided attack. "Rocket!" screams a grunt, unleashing an AT4 rocket at one of the insurgent positions. Men reel from the blast's concussion. The shooting from the east stops. But as Jones peers over a cement wall to locate the second ambush position, a 7.62-mm round whizzes by. "Whoa, that went right over my head," he says, smiling. As the Marines on the roof fire at the insurgents...