… t I I - I /4 ~ 4~ PICTORIAL PARADE Manna for telespuds: 'The Beverly Hillbillies'(above), 'Dobie Gillis'(left), Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman'(above, right) ~r4 security. Just as Garrison Keillor has been able to evoke a common hometown for people who have left home, these shows give us a family to complement the real and imper- fect one that fate has dealt us. Old TV also preserves time cap- sules. Certain shows say more about America tha...…
…4 4 A Scene of Quiet Achievements Gallaudet offers education, a special culture and a guide to the hearing world for deaf students When Frances Parsons shows slides of Picasso's "Guernica" and Fernand L6ger's "The City" to her art-history stu- dents, they watch her more closely than the masterpieces. Small won- der: the tall, slim, white-haired professor keeps moving her lips without making a sound. Her striking face is as animated as a mi...…
… the conversation (signed) seems quite compatible with the more than 300 watts of music from four Peavey speakers. From the outside, Gallaudet's dorms look like the same architecturally modern buildings as those at many other colleges. But in- side there are differences. The hypersensitive fire detectors, which went off more than 200 times last fall, flash blindingly powerful strobe lights as well as clang a bell that makes the walls and floor...…
…J U C A T called English Natural Form Instruction in which the teacher and students commu- nicate via computers, simulating conversa- tional English through the use of writtten English sent over a computer network. Be- cause English is, in effect, a second lan- guage for the deaf, all students are required to pass proficiency exams before they can enter the freshman class. Those with seri- ous deficiencies can remedy them in the prefreshman y...…
… When the Price Is Too High Colleges need funds, but they fear selling out When Duke graduate and trustee Disque Deane pledged $20 million to his alma mater last December, it seemed like a fund raiser's dream come true. The biggest gift since James B. Duke endowed the university in 1924, Deane's contribution would revitalize Duke's $200 million capital campaign. But alas, there was a catch: terms of the gift mandat- ed that an executive commit...…
…E 4 Messina explains, but if the donor went further and demanded that certain chemi- cals and a specific reporting procedure be used in the research, that would be objec- tionable. "You've crossed the line into grant/contract area," Messina says. "If there's a proprietary interest back to the donor, then it's not a gift." The issue at Duke was not clear-cut. Uni- versity officials had been negotiating for nearly three years before Deane-a li...…
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… FASHION Fall's Fancies High fashion it's not, but here's what's hot T he women at Oklahoma State are fit to be tied these days. Hair bows, which have come and gone at some schools, have now lassoed the Cow- girls. The fripperies are especially fashionable among sorority members, who are sometimes known as bowheads. "I was sitting at a meeting the other day, and I noticed every single girl had something in her hair," marvels bow believer Poll...…
… los with clasps shaped like scorpions, snakes and broncos in his store, Dream- land, says they show up everywhere: "I wear mine to Safeway." Male and female Huskies shop not only for the real old thing at about $7 or so, but for artsy new versions that cost up to $30. "The weirder they are, the more of a state- ment they make," says Claudia Morgan, whose Armadillo and Co. boutique carries upscale bolos. Coming for Christmas: bolos . clasped b...…
…Small crowds, 16-hour van trips and a shoestring budget: UMass women's team at practice The Latest Big Kick U.S. colleges adopt the world's most popular sport SPORTS major who stops shots just fine at 6 feet, 165. And you can't beat the exercise: 90 minutes of organized running up and down the 120-yard pitch. "The physical dangers aren't as great," says Frank Longo, execu- tive secretary of the Intercollegiate Soccer Association of America. "...…
…If you think the best way to pay for college is to put it off for a few years and join the military, you're half right. Because with the New GI Bill, you can join the Army National Guard and earn over $15,000 for college. But best of all, you serve part-time, as little as two days a month and two weeks a year. Which means you can go to school full-time. Right now. On us. So the question you have to ask yourself is not, can you afford to go to ...…
… I I I IPLE Columbia's Mean Streak Call them the anti-fans. While their football team was losing to Princeton last month-its 35th straight defeat, a major-college rec- ord-Columbia "boosters" cheered-for Princeton. They sported "Beat Columbia" but- tons and "Strive for 35" ban- ners. And they were on their i ziCHOICE1z o0 U II feet when Princeton scored af- ter just 21 seconds. "I'm here to see my team doing what they do best," said Pa...…
…BARRY STAVER Limerick conducts interview ence prof, even kicked Limer- ick out of his office. Limerick is not just clown- ing around. "There is a com- mon but inaccurate assump- tion that the fool is trying to make fun of something," says Limerick who, like Lear's fool, is playful yet insightful. "In fact, I am very serious." MICHI AEL M EHLE in Boulder A Pig Issue at Brandeis omething isn't kosher at Brandeis-the menu, to be precise. This fal...…
…C A R E E I This Job Really Weathers Well The forecast for meteorologists is mostly sunny vision viewers may picture Mention meteorology, and tele- Willard Scott wearing bunch of bananas on his bald pate or a local airhead chirp- ing about the rain. But meteorology amounts to a lot more than happy talk. Meteorologists-even a growing number of TV weathercasters-are skilled profes- sionals trained in physics, chemistry and math. Their predicti...…
…Laura Kennedy, 31, who is get- ting her Ph.D. at Texas A&M. Most meteorologists earn a relatively modest income. "You won't become the richest in the world, but it's not bad," says Biedinger of the National Weather Service. Be- ginning government salaries range from $15,500 to $18,300, not including overtime, and within three or four years in- crease to about $28,000. Em- ployees at private companies may well earn more. "If you're a good consu...…
…C A R 4 A Black Leader for Army West Point names an old grad to a top job- and polishes its appeal When Fred Gorden graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1962, he was the only black among 600 cadets. This fall he returned to the Point-as Brig. Gen. Frederick Augus- tus Gorden, the first black officer ever to command the cadet corps. As commandant of cadets, Gorden, 47, holds one of the most significant posts in the Army:...…
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…C L A S S I F I E D S THE BRITISH AMERICAN DRAMA ACADEMY and SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE present THE LONDON DRAMA f t r. PROGRAM ti 1 i iit! 1 REGENTS COLLEGE, LONDON i i BADA's programs offer unique opportunities to study classical theatre with Britain's finest actors and directors. Those taking part in 1987 included: Sir John Gielgud - Jeremy Irons . Rosemary Harris Simon Callow " John Schlesinger . Paul Rogers The program includes courses in dr...…
… A R3 RESUMES Getting Carded A search for new blood When you care enough to send the very best, as its saying goes, there is Hallmark Cards, Inc., of Kansas City, which pioneered greeting cards 77 years ago and now has a 40 per- cent share of the market. And there are also Cleveland-based American Greetings, which has an estimated 30 percent of the $3.4 billion business, and Cincinnati-based Gibson Cards, which sells Garfield and Walt Disney-...…
… gag and a punch line in a three-panel cartoon strip."r Artists work on a variety of company products including calendars, posters, T shirts and coffee mugs. Hallmark employs about 600 artists, American Greetings, 300 and Gibson, 50. Artists like Gibson's Carolyn Tagel, 23, don't feel they're selling out by working for card companies. Marty Roelandt, a senior art director for Gibson, agrees. "It's all problem solving in one way or another. It'...…
…7 S 1 4 music ~Ji~i3 jJb iJi± li ever before has so much of the recorded history of jazz been available. In the past, as the popu- larity of jazz surged and bed, record companies would riodically reissue old treas- es and then drop them from eir catalogs. Now it seems as ?very company is blowing the ist off yesterday's master- ices and rushing them into record stores. To a certain ex- tent this phenomenon has been spurred by the compact-di...…
…of Bird" (Warner Bros.) and "Bird / The Savoy Recordings (Master Takes)" (Savoy /Aris ta). "Bird on Verve, Vol. 2: Bird and Diz" (Verve or French Poly- gram) draws from a magnifi- cent pairing of Parker with an- other founder of bop, Dizzy Gillespie. Thelonius Monk. Although he played with many of the boppers and showed a few of the same stylistic intentions, Thelonius Monk soon became a musical style unto himself. A supreme iconoclast, Monk c...…
…PHOTOS FROM THE FR f free form: Art Blakey at a New York City 3ood- a flair for writing. But he has, fro 'Min- for more than 30 years, hired a he, d on long list of promising young I a Sin- players-among the more re- sty 4), he cent, Wynton Marsalis-for his wo 3nges band, the Jazz Messengers. The Mi s. To open, funky sound of his group, do itless particularly on live recordings, ter out is an easy delight. "The Jazz Pa ginal Messengers at the ...…
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…ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT The Jocular Jugglers The Flying Karamazovs pitch pies, pins and puns For the first time all night the stage is quiet. Quiet, that is, except for the sound of 15 Indian clubs swishing 1 through the air. As the clubs dance faster and faster in the juggling equivalent of a jam sesssion, the Flying Karamazov Brothers improvise tosses while trying to maintain an intricate rhythm. For a few transfixing moments, chaos and order...…
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…BOOKS - _ So Chic, So Glossy Art history on the run know I've succeeded when my work is talked about as though it were a movie that had just been seen," says the artist Eric Fischl. His strange, voyeuristic paint- ings of suburban family life provoke a lot of conversation-as do surprising works by several other celebrated contemporary art- ists. But how can you keep up with what's hot and what's not now that art talk is as fashionable as cine...…
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