Word: roles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...looks horrible on paper. A little Black girl from the ghetto, Ronald Ann, is transported into an avante garde land of socially-conscious weird beings. Ronald Ann, who totes a headless doll, made appearances in the last year of "Bloom County," but her character was smothered beneath her role as the Voice of Liberal Consciousness. She was never anything more than an easy way to get a point across. Ronald Ann had none of the subtlety or independence of, say, Oliver Wendell Jones, Breathed's Black computer hacker...
Spence has also taken a much less visibleapproach to the deanship than Rosovsky did.Instead of headline-maker Spence says he prefersto see his role as that of consensus-builder...
...Spence says he has assembled a network ofsenior faculty members who have a permanentworking knowledge of FAS's administrative side.Over the course of his first five years, Spencehas strengthened the role of department chairs,added several academic deanships and brought moreprofessors into the planning process...
...Brando's role is surprisingly small. For most of the movie, the action switches back and forth between the repression of Black protest in the town ships and the gradual disintegration of Sutherland's family, most of whom are exasperated by his crusade against apartheid...
...popular discipline among undergraduates today; it regularly places in the top one or two most popular concentrations and draws many graduate students, as well. Women's history, on the other hand, has been a perennial gaping hole in the Harvard curriculum--despite, or perhaps because of, the role history plays in determining the relative status of various groups...