Word: amanda
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...working more than I thought--I didn't think it would be this hard," said Amanda M. Minami, whose three and a half hours a day of calculus lectures and sections have kept her studying well into the night...
...Optica shop in Beverly Hills has a pair for $35,000. Foster Grant, the largest U.S. manufacturer of popularly priced sunglasses, offers more than 100 styles. Bausch & Lomb, the patriarch of quality shade makers, has at least 200 styles to select from. And people are not shy about choosing. Amanda Brown Olmstead, head of an advertising agency in Atlanta, has nine pairs, which she stores with her jewelry: "I change my glasses just as I change my earrings. What I wear depends on my mood that day and the colors I wear...
...desire of Harvard-nurtured to write Harvard novels is, of course, not new. And as Amanda Cross and Erich Segal have already demonstrated, and Silver makes abundantly clear, there are ways of satisfying that urge which do not involve subjecting the reading public to an embarrassing wallow in nostalgic meditation. Not that the excesses of more "serious" Harvard novelists such as George A. Weller '29 and Faye Levine '65 aren't understandable; writers are supposed to write from experience, and any Harvard career as Real and Grand and Full as these writers seem to have had just cries...
...book a Harvard novel would be equally silly, for Death of a Harvard Freshman is assuredly no novel. It is completely and unabashedly a detective story, and a light-hearted one at that, with Harvard providing the splotches of local color. Its closest relative in the genre is Amanda Cross's Death in a Tenured Position, which has the same lightly sardonic tone. But unlike Cross's book, which unfolded among the junior faculty of the Harvard English Department with only an occasional student flashing across the screen, Silver's is firmly rooted in the Yard...
...Hampshire where Win had given up teaching to start The Hotel New Hampshire, to Vienna where he and the children and his old friend confusingly named Freud start the second Hotel New Hampshire Permanent guests in this home lodge include terrorists, one of whom, Miss Carriage, played by Amanda Plummer, has a very peculiar accent, another who bears a suspicious resemblance to the prep school youth who raped Fanny, Susie the bear--Kinski dressed in a potbelly bear suit (why the sultry Kinski hides in such a suit is never satisfactorily explained), and a pack of German whores...