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...Gerald Lesser, who helped create such legendary children's programming as Sesame Street and The Electric Company, teaches classes on the media at the Ed School. "What we do is find out how we can use TV and education and entertainment," he says, adding that "when you put something on TV, there's no opportunity to talk back and react. The new technology is videodiscs, playback and cable. You can set up a two-way interaction between the media and kids." Lesser says the Ed School and MIT may collaborate soon to set up media research and production facilities...
Only 16 teams from across the nation are selected to compete at this prestigious tournament--which hosts the elite of college tennis. The Crimson could, depending on first-round draws, confront such powerhouses as UCLA or Pepperdine--not to mention the star-studded array of lesser dieties...
Tacky, tacky, tacky. That is the aim and the achievement of Writer-Director Waters. The decor in Francine's home looks to be straight out of Lesser Homes and Gargoyles; her husband breakfasts on Pepsi and Kix; the family dog leaves the message GOODBYE CRUEL WORLD and hangs itself from the refrigerator door. As with most farce, the movie sags when it runs out of middle-class icons to desecrate. But for any suitably depraved moviegoer, it offers as many honest laughs as Airplane! It's a vision of Baltimore that H.L. Mencken might have loved...
...year, the battered hero rubs his knuckles and reflects: "People who become legends in their own time usually have very little time left." True enough, unless they are the cream of contemporary detectives, whose ageless task is to bust the bad guys and leave the whining and complaining to lesser mortals...
...School officials said that racism is no more a problem at the Law School than in society in general. "I think the Law School probably reflects racism to a lesser degree than society as a whole," Phyllis Beck, vice-dean of the school, said...