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...playwright and former opera singer, Quinn uses his love of stage and song to leaven the weekly mix of prime ministers and corporate titans with a sprinkling of actors, jazzmen and radio stars. "He lobbies hard for the most obscure people, then does them proud," says assistant editor Sidney Urquhart. "Sometimes we have to remind him that a head of state has passed away and we don't have room for that long-forgotten mimic...
...sirens, in horror films and period pieces. Black actors, on the other hand, were defined by their race and carefully circumscribed in the parts they could play--usually sidekicks, servants or criminals. Even the few black actors who broke into leading-man roles were confined in various ways. Sidney Poitier, the premier black star of the 1950s and '60s, was all too often limited to moralizing integrationist films. Eddie Murphy, one of the biggest box-office draws of the '80s, has found it difficult to move beyond formulaic comedies...
...committee will be chaired by Sidney Verba '53, Pforzheimer University professor...
Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba '53, director of the Harvard University Library, said that he has found De Gennaro "first-rate" to work with and admires his efforts to modernize the library...
Other fellows are Kathleen Neal Cleaver, Robert R. Krueger, Elizabeth McHenry, Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka, Sidney N. Klaus, Maria Diedrich, Rebecca Carroll, Barry Hallen, Mary Hamer, Roger R. House, Shelly Leanne, Alessandra Lorini, Jill Netchinsky-Toussaint, Stephan Palmie, Barbara L. Solow, Therese Steffen and Patricia Sullivan...