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Student 'Subversives' And The FBI's 'Dirty Tricks'

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Mario Savio, shown here at a victory rally in UC Berkeley's Sproul Plaza on Dec. 9, 1964, was the face of the free speech movement.

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Seth Rosenfeld is a journalist based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Originally published on Wed August 22, 2012 1:21 pm

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In 1964, students at the University of California, Berkeley, formed a protest movement to repeal a campus rule banning students from engaging in political activities.

Then-FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover suspected the free speech movement to be evidence of a Communist plot to disrupt U.S. campuses. He "had long been concerned about alleged subversion within the education field," journalist Seth Rosenfeld tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross.

1:52 pm

Tue August 21, 2012

Fresh Air Remembers Comedian Phyllis Diller

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Phyllis Diller plays peekaboo with the cameraman before the start of her television show Bonkers in 1979.

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Originally published on Tue August 21, 2012 2:35 pm

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Phyllis Diller, one of the first and one of the few female comic headliners of her generation, died Monday at the age of 95.

Diller performed in the persona of a crazed housewife. She usually dressed in outlandish, bad-fitting clothes with her hair teased into a disheveled mop. Then she'd fire off long strings of self-deprecating gags. She was so unattractive, she used to tell her audiences, that Peeping Toms asked her to pull her window shades down. Onstage, she called her husband Fang. Diller told Fang jokes like her male counterparts told wife jokes.

12:13 pm

Tue August 21, 2012

Michael J. Fox Gets A New Comedy: Has NBC Found A Way To Make Some Progress?

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Michael J. Fox, seen here in April, will have a new NBC comedy in the fall of 2013.

By Linda Holmes

NBC is in need of a stroke of luck. They need something to work. The Olympics are over; it hasn't appreciably changed anything yet, and there's certainly no swell of excitement about Animal Practice and Go On that leads me to believe previewing them during the Olympics will make them hits any more than that strategy usually does.

10:50 am

Tue August 21, 2012

Photos From The Sets Of Latin American Soap Operas

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Yadhira Carrillo as Leonora "Nora" Guzman Madrigal de Orta de Palacios-Garcia in Amarte Es Mi Pecado (Loving You Is My Sin)

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Maids are a common fixture in telenovelas.

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Ernesto Alonso is a Mexican producer, director and actor known as "Señor Telenovela" ("Mr. Soap Opera") because most of his prolific work in the genre.

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Daniel Cortes is student of Centro de Educación Artística (CEA) of Televisa, where actors are trained to star in its various productions.

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Yadhira Carrillo plays heroine Nora in Amarte es mi Pecado

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Sergio Sendel plays Arturo Sandoval de Anda in Amarte es mi Pecado

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'Sergio Sendel as Arturo Sandoval de Anda; Amarte es mi Pecado (Loving You Is My Sin), 2003; The Factory of Dreams (Aperture, 2012)'

'Azucena Preciado Hernández and Claudia Janet Prado Terrazas; Amarte es mi Pecado (Loving You Is My Sin), 2003; The Factory of Dreams (Aperture 2012)'

'Sergio Sendel as Arturo Sandoval de Anda; Amarte es mi Pecado (Loving You Is My Sin), 2003; The Factory of Dreams (Aperture, 2012)'

'Azucena Preciado Hernández and Claudia Janet Prado Terrazas; Amarte es mi Pecado (Loving You Is My Sin), 2003; The Factory of Dreams (Aperture 2012)'

'Sergio Sendel as Arturo Sandoval de Anda; Amarte es mi Pecado (Loving You Is My Sin), 2003; The Factory of Dreams (Aperture, 2012)'

'Azucena Preciado Hernández and Claudia Janet Prado Terrazas; Amarte es mi Pecado (Loving You Is My Sin), 2003; The Factory of Dreams (Aperture 2012)'

'Sergio Sendel as Arturo Sandoval de Anda; Amarte es mi Pecado (Loving You Is My Sin), 2003; The Factory of Dreams (Aperture, 2012)'

'Azucena Preciado Hernández and Claudia Janet Prado Terrazas; Amarte es mi Pecado (Loving You Is My Sin), 2003; The Factory of Dreams (Aperture 2012)'

'Daniel CortesCEA, Televisa Acting School, 2004from The Factory of Dreams (Aperture 2012)'

'Germán Gutiérrez as Osvaldo Quintero; Amarte es Mi Pecado (Loving You Is My Sin), 2003. (Aperture, 2012)'

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'Daniel CortesCEA, Televisa Acting School, 2004from The Factory of Dreams (Aperture 2012)'

'Sergio Sendel as Arturo Sandoval de Anda; Amarte es mi Pecado (Loving You Is My Sin), 2003; The Factory of Dreams (Aperture, 2012)'

'Azucena Preciado Hernández and Claudia Janet Prado Terrazas; Amarte es mi Pecado (Loving You Is My Sin), 2003; The Factory of Dreams (Aperture 2012)'

'Daniel CortesCEA, Televisa Acting School, 2004from The Factory of Dreams (Aperture 2012)'

'Germán Gutiérrez as Osvaldo Quintero; Amarte es Mi Pecado (Loving You Is My Sin), 2003. (Aperture, 2012)'

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Sergio Sendel as Arturo Sandoval de Anda in Amarte es mi Pecado (Loving You Is My Sin), 2003, from The Factory of Dreams by Stefan Ruiz.

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Azucena Preciado Hernandez and Claudia Janet Prado Terrazas in Amarte es mi Pecado (Loving You Is My Sin), 2003.

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Daniel Cortes CEA, Televisa Acting School, 2004

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German Gutierrez as Osvaldo Quintero in Amarte es Mi Pecado (Loving You Is My Sin), 2003.

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Yadhira Carrillo as Leonora "Nora" Guzman Madrigal de Orta de Palacios-Garcia in Amarte Es Mi Pecado (Loving You Is My Sin).

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Ernesto Alonso, known as "Senor Telenovela" for his prolific work in the genre, in Amarte Es Mi Pecado (Loving You Is My Sin), 2003.

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A character from the telenovela Amarte Es Mi Pecado (To Love You Is My Sin.)

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Originally published on Tue August 21, 2012 4:13 pm

If you've spent even a few minutes watching a telenovela, or Latin American soap opera, you're familiar with some of the archetypes: the swarthy, good-looking country man; the maid; the poor peasant woman (generally devoid of indigenous features); the evil rich girl, etc. For better or worse, it's a huge part of Latino culture, and photographer Stefan Ruiz wanted to document it.

10:14 am

Tue August 21, 2012

Let's Rush To Judgment: 'Liberal Arts'

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