Word: streisands
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Move over, Barbra Streisand and Tom Hanks. Yet another artist-as-citizen may be coming to Harvard, and the stage definitely won't be big enough for anyone else...
...only been in University Hall for a few minutes, when a rumor started to fly around the first floor with lightning speed. Barbra Streisand was going to be there, "to chat it up with [Dean of the Faculty] Jeremy [Knowles]" before her IOP speech the next...
Barbra looked threatened; she guarded her face with her coat lapels, not knowing what to make of these weirdos sniffing tentatively at her. It was all very awkward, so on her approach to University Hall, I caught her eye and greeted her: "Hello, Ms. Streisand...
...Hello," she responded. Then she ducked into the building and was whisked up the stairs to Dean Knowles's office. I did not get to pose with Barbra Streisand...
During his intermission pressconference, Hanks was a delightful mix of thoughtfulness and winning verve. He sang the Underdog theme song, and earnestly fielded probing questions. He responded to the accusation that "Forrest Gump" is a muted, conservative diatribe with mock indignation. Unlike Streisand, Hanks said that the artist is a citizen in most countries he knows of, but their only responsibility is to vote by secret ballot like every other citizen. He repeated again and again "I am not an activist." Some opinionated reporters would kiss him for that...