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...World Is Flat, Thomas Friedman argues that globalization has collapsed the old hierarchy of economic engine-nations into a world where the ambitious everywhere can compete across borders against one another, and he identifies the science problem as a big part of that development. Borrowing a phrase from Shirley Ann Jackson, president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, he calls it America's "quiet crisis...
...zany adventure” set aboard a cruise ship, Dodd said. The show will follow the ship’s embattled crew as they fight to stave off an impending iceberg collision and hijacking by a child starlet, whom Dodd described as “a Shirley Temple gone very, very wrong...
...zany adventure” set aboard a cruise ship, Dodd said. The show will follow the ship’s embattled crew as they fight to stave off an impending iceberg collision and hijacking by a child starlet, whom Dodd described as “a Shirley Temple gone very, very wrong...
...work, women turn out to have far richer interior lives than men. I have always argued that if you want to learn something about emotion, you have to ask women. That's why I've had three women characters who've won Oscars--[for] Patricia Neal, Cloris Leachman and Shirley MacLaine. I've always thought that for my interests, emotionally, I have to seek women to talk about. Men don't talk about emotion. They don't understand...
DIED. SHELLEY WINTERS, 85, zaftig, high-decibel star who played some of the movies' most famous victims; in Beverly Hills. Born Shirley Schrift, she had the attributes of a '50s Hollywood dish--latkes, perhaps--and could twist prim dialogue into raunch with her throaty laugh. But the shrillness in a Winters character gave men homicidal urges. She was strangled by Ronald Colman (A Double Life) and drowned by Montgomery Clift (A Place in the Sun). Robert Mitchum slit her throat (The Night of the Hunter); James Mason drove her to fatal madness (Lolita). She won two Oscars, for The Diary...