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...like to call her Mother Teresa,” says friend and roommate Shirley V. Cardona ’06. “The entire time we’ve been in college people have asked ‘What’s Jenn going to do when she graduates?’ and we’ll say, ‘She’s going to save the world...
...steps to be taken toward making academic careers compatible with family caregiving responsibilities,” the presidents wrote. The statement came nearly ten months after three of the presidents—Stanford’s John Hennessy, MIT’s Susan Hockfield, and Princeton’s Shirley Tilghman—penned an op-ed for The Boston Globe that appeared to criticize Summers’ now infamous remarks on the “intrinsic aptitude” of women in science. “The question we must ask as a society...
...Slow Singing Our Milestone on the death of jazz singer Shirley Horn [Oct. 31] noted her signature 1991 album, You Won't Forget Me, which showcased her "sultry, voluptuous, plaintive" voice. TIME talked with Horn about her singing in a March 25, 1991, report: "'It's been written that Shirley Horn is back on the scene,' Horn reflects. 'Well, I haven't been anywhere. And I've been busy' ... More precisely, Horn is front and center, but her secret?her jazz essence?is still intact. It's what draws you first when you hear the smoky timber of her voice...
AIRPLANE!: THE "DON'T CALL ME SHIRLEY" EDITION Who remembers Airport, the blockbuster 1970 melodrama (and its three sequels) about imperiled aircraft and frantic air-traffic controllers? It's this 1980 parody that both defined and dented that disaster genre. Writer-directors David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker (who later profitably spoofed cops in their Police Squad TV show and Naked Gun movie series) set the tone for a generation of movie silliness. Their coolest inspiration: casting "serious" actors, like Lloyd Bridges and Peter Graves, who spat out the ludicrous dialogue in flawless deadpan. Bridges: "Looks like I picked...
During his short conversation with FM, the conflict still seemed to be hanging heavily over West’s mind. “I am much freer under [Princeton University President] Shirley [M.] Tilghman than I was under Larry Summers,” he said...