Word: wexler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Natalie L. Wexler '76, a spokesman for the Currier group, said yesterday that the present Harvard plan, approved by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) in mid-November, constitutes insufficient goals and timetables for hiring women...
...increases indicated in the plan do not constitute the 'material, substantial' increase required by executive order, and the projected action for Harvard's non-teaching positions is no more 'affirmative,'"Wexler said...
...million dollar plant-which houses four enormous stages on two levels, a 57-foot turntable, and the most intricate theatrical lighting system in the country-can accommodate the composer's billowing visions, but only by stretching human and mechanical resources to the fullest. Said Stage Designer Peter Wexler: "It beats anything Cecil B. De Mille was ever up against...
...Hair. Musically, the opera is a series of epic climaxes; there is, for instance, no overture. Except to the most committed Berlioz aficionado, part one is a stark musical landscape with none of the lyricism that is to follow. To compensate-and in effect illustrate the fall of Troy-Wexler and Director Nathaniel Merrill have conjured up six full scene changes spinning around on the turntable. Complete with a dazzling procession, the horse, plus three more huge icons of animals, it is a mesmerizing panoply...
...reportage of Peter Maas as gospel. In their film, no other cop besides Serpico and an idealistic inspector are at all virtuous; Serpico's Ivy League associate, David Durk, is here preening and pompous, nothing like the dedicated, befuddled naif whom even Maas found sincere. And Lumet, Salt and Wexler never detail the reluctance of police higher-ups to listen to Serpico: New York City and police officials are cardboard figures of mishandled authority. Because the film's view of the force is so sketchy, we get little sense of accomplishment or relief from the formation of the Knapp Commission...