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Studio boss Jeffrey Katzenberg has promised his new producers total artistic freedom. In Hollywood, though, where Disney is notorious for tinkering with every aspect of production, cynics wondered when the honeymoon would sour. And what films might the Merchant Ivory team make for Disney? The Importance of Being Ernest Scared Stupid? Three Men and a Portrait of a Lady? Howard the Duck...
...artists and intellectuals, trying to explicate her mystery, who did the most to propagate her legend. She was Ernest Hemingway's pal (he called her "the Kraut"), and she conducted famous liaisons with men ranging from John Wayne to the gloomy popular novelist Erich Maria Remarque. Yet she was also a devoted mother and grandmother who never divorced her only husband, even after he became a chicken rancher in the San Fernando Valley. She was, everyone agreed, "sexy," but no one ever satisfactorily defined the nature of her appeal, which eventually settled into a dislocating combination of threat and good...
...been deactivated by the DIA after being arrested by the FBI for using his DIA cover name, Thomas Leavy, on a passport application. Coleman claims that the DIA instructed him to do this. "But such trumped-up charges are frequently used to keep spooks quiet," says A. Ernest Fitzgerald, a Pentagon whistle-blower and a director of the Fund for Constitutional Government in Washington, which has been looking into Coleman's case...
Some innovative schools -- Rice among them -- have chosen to dismantle their bureaucracies to devote more resources to labs, libraries and classrooms. "Higher education has to see itself as having an enhanced obligation to society and the community," says Arthur Hauptman, a Washington-based educational consultant. Ernest Boyer, head of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, is even blunter. "Universities and colleges," he warns, "will be either engaged or judged irrelevant." To measure by its noble past and present accomplishments -- even amid fiscal agony -- odds are strong that higher learning in America will find a way to compete...
...basically the record of 200 old men trying to justify their lives to other men they had known 50 years earlier. Some of them tackled this task with the pomposity you would expect. Richard Walden Hale "finds that the best hobby is owning plenty of New England land." Ernest Blaney Dane wrote that "although his collection [of fine jade and crystal] is not as large as the one in the Metropolitan Museum, he believes it is finer...