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Several departments that experienced hiring problems in the last decade have made some appointments in the past couple of years. The hiring problems aren't gone--some faculties still take months, even years, to make decisions--but the tune, at least, is changing...
Imagine a duet of dueling megastars: the chandelier from Phantom of the Opera and the helicopter from Miss Saigon. Or a dance number that redubs Tommy Tune's somber, doomy Grand Hotel as Grim Hotel. Or a patter song to the tune of Brush Up Your Shakespeare, in which I Hate Hamlet star Nicol Williamson celebrates the joys of humbling his co-stars. This sort of humor -- a cunning blend of insiderish wit and broad clowning -- has made Forbidden Broadway an institution. Since 1982 it has played off-Broadway, enjoying the goodwill and legal cooperation of the very creators...
...current-affairs contests, scholarship programs and a yearly contest in which students try to guess who TIME's Man or Woman of the Year is going to be. This week, in addition to the teacher's guide and the magazines, schools with satellite dishes will be able to tune in to Guidance Associates' School and College Satellite Network and watch TIME editors and one of the writers of the weekly guide discuss how to make the recent events in the Soviet Union relevant to their students. "We've been thinking of doing something like this for some time," says...
ITHINK I'VE BEEN in college too long. When I was younger, I was completely in tune with popular culture. I watched all the TV shows, went to all the movies and knew all the cool things to talk about. Since I've been burying myself in academics, I think I have missed out on some important cultural changes in America...
...Dial scanners have to wonder: Is this guy kidding? Well, of course. Sometimes. As when he announces the Limbaugh neutron bomb: "It vaporizes liberals but leaves conservatives standing." Or when he bleats a duh-duh-lut duh-duh-lut fanfare, announcing a Pee-wee Herman news update to the tune of Michael Jackson's Beat It. Or when he handicaps N.F.L. games by political correctness: "The Eagles, an endangered species, will of course cover the spread against those pillaging, earth-destroying Cowboys." Or when he (infrequently) admits to a gaffe and as punishment spanks himself and squalls like a colicky...