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Vicki Sato '68, a Japanese American and a former Harvard instructor, said that despite her affection for Harvard, during her years at the University, she never felt that an active Asian student community existed. Sato said Asian students need to be more aggressive in that regard. "We're not just...

Author: By Evan M. Supcoff, | Title: The Crimson's Black Record | 9/6/1986 | See Source »

Despite the professions of ignorance by most of Helga's neighbors, reporters eventually found her house across the road from the Kuerners', learned that her name is Helga Testorf, that she is now 54 and that she is married with four children and two grandchildren. (A daughter, Carmen, figures in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Andrew Wyeth's Stunning Secret | 8/18/1986 | See Source »

Such excess, suggests Serpell, leads to the still prevalent view that demonstrative affection for animals is peculiar, if not unnatural. In 16th century Europe, women who talked to animals ran the risk of being incinerated for witchcraft. Today the ardent pet enthusiast is suspected of being a closet misanthrope. Not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pet Theories and Pet Peeves in the Company of Animals by James Serpell | 8/18/1986 | See Source »

With its dignified rooms, passing from grand to aedicular scale and back again, Palazzo Grassi is an excellent place to look at art. The show has art and a good deal else, including such totems of futurist affection as a 1911 Bleriot monoplane and a World War I Spad hanging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Kill the Moonlight! They Cried | 8/4/1986 | See Source »

Heartburn is now a movie, one sure to stoke controversy because of a comic tone that swerves deftly from affection to irony to flippancy to icy revenge. In its portrayal of Rachel, who needs so much love, and Mark, who wants too much sex, the film may seem to suggest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Love's Something You Fall in Heartburn | 8/4/1986 | See Source »

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