Roanoke Times
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DATE: SATURDAY, February 1, 1992 TAG: 9202010324
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PEOPLE
Spike Lee, whose films tackling racial issues include "Jungle Fever" and "Do The Right Thing," became Harvard University's Professor Lee on Friday, Lee teaching a subject with which he has some familiarity: African American cinema."I think it's a honor just for me to teach young students in film," the director said after the introductory class of his one-semester position. "But they're going to have to work, they're going to have to write papers, see films. No backsliding, no skating in this class."
The class was limited to 60 students and had been scheduled for an average-sized lecture hall. But this is "shopping week" at Harvard, which means students can sit in on classes to try them out, and the draw was so big for Lee's lecture that the class was moved to a theater.
Students waited in line for more than an hour at the 1,200-seat Sanders Theater. Harvard officials said 600 people were turned away.
Barbara Walters and Sen. John Warner have been chums for eons, but The Washington Post detects a ripple of change - that they've "crossed the line into `serious.' "
The senator will say only that the two have "a marvelous relationship." The TV personality, in a February Vogue article, swears off marriage.
Adds a Warner friend: "They have been waxing and waning for years. Let's just say they are now waxing."
West Virginia Gov. Gaston Caperton choked on his supper this week but, luckily for the 51-year-old Democrat, a state trooper posted at the governor's mansion performed the Heimlich maneuver successfully.
Spokesman George Manahan said he didn't know what caught in the governor's throat. Caperton, a vegetarian, reportedly was eating rice at the time.
As a precaution, Caperton was taken to Charleston Area Medical Center, where he was examined, given a glass of water and sent home, a spokesman said.