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...industry conventions, taboos and the studio system with such films as The Moon Is Blue (1953), which treated seduction wittily and used then banned words like virgin; The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), which graphically depicted drug addiction; Anatomy of a Murder (1959), with its detailed courtroom discus sion of a rape; and Exodus (1960), for which he defied McCarthyist blacklisting by hiring Scenarist Dalton Trumbo; of cancer; in New York City. A successful producer-director in Vienna before coming to the U.S. in 1936, he worked on Broadway and in Hollywood, where his first triumph was the masterly...
...Peoplesoft Public Relations Manager Lisa C. Sion said she was unaware of any major problems...
...know all this about his radio work because, unlike the theatrical productions that vanished on closing night, nearly all of his important radio shows are preserved and available. Some of the best "Mercury" epi-sodes can be ordered from Radio Spirits; so can Welles? splendid 3-1/2hr. ver-sion of "Les Mis?rables," produced the summer before the Mercury went on the air. Many more shows - 18 of 22 "Mercury?s" and 29 of 56 episodes of its sponsored successor, "Campbell Playhouse" - can be heard with a RealPlayer attach-ment on your current entertainment furniture of choice. This...
...also included accusations that they laundered gold looted by the Nazis. Swiss officials are convinced that such revelations ?- and the stonewalling that came between facts and reparations ?- cost them the 2006 Winter Olympics, which last weekend were awarded to the Italian city of Turin rather than Swiss front-runner Sion. So they?re bargaining with their only chip ?- the secrecy of their banks. In the last few years, the world?s most discreet bankers have blown the whistle on former prime minister Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan and kleptocrat Mobutu Sese Seko of the former Zaire. The Swiss are only...
...They were not the first to take over buildings in the late '60s, and the University had been preparing itself for such a possibility since the summer of 1968. In January, the Harvard Corporation, the University's highest governing board, had given President Nathan M. Pusey '28 permis- sion to call the police in the event of adisruption at Harvard...