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Pilbeam is heading a faculty committee, appointed last fall by Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence, to recruit visiting scholars for the ethnic studies program that is supposed to bring one full-time visitor to campus each year...
...life, if he behaves himself and stops assaulting his guards and quits hurling feces and food at them, he may be moved into more conventional quarters.) His room is lined with Plexiglas, and three video cameras track him constantly. He is so prone to commit mayhem that when a visitor calls, Bosket is chained backward to the inside of his cell door. When the door is swung open, there is Bosket, pinned to the bars like a specimen in a bug collection...
...visitor, Bosket plays the cunning Mr. Charm. He is handsome, slightly built at 5 ft. 9 in. and 150 lbs., articulate and witty. He has 200 books in his cell and converses easily about the works of Dostoyevsky and B.F. Skinner. "I'm really a loving and caring person," he protests. "I hunger for knowledge. My pain and suffering have stroked my ability to be intellectual. If the system wasn't so quick to incarcerate me as a child, I could have become a well-known attorney. I could have been a Senator...
Genuine celebs will mingle with the fans of Hollywood Boulevard each day (Cyd Charisse this week). But the basic idea of Disney-MGM is that the visitor is the star. Bobby-soxed employees clamor for your autograph, demand to be photographed with your family of four (who have paid about $110 for a day at the park). In the SuperStar Television show, you guest-star in ingeniously integrated scenes from I Love Lucy, Today, The Ed Sullivan Show or General Hospital. On the 90-min. Studio Tour you don a yellow slicker and become skipper of the good ship Miss...
...spirit from Peter Pan. He liked to think of himself as a bridge between the New Left and the hippie counterculture, between "Off the pigs!" and "If it feels good, do it." He was never more himself than when he taunted the capitalists by showering dollar bills from the visitor's gallery onto the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange...