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...Alpha", a junior, says that in her first year she had a Shakespeare TF with "the best arm muscles I have ever seen. He was really hot." "Beta", a junior taking her pre-med requirements, confides that during a lab, her physiology TF "rolled up his T-shirt and started flexing and saying, 'Well, the extensor works this way and see how when I flex the bicep..."' Beta is sure that he liked being able to show the class that he was a big, buff...

Author: By Daniela Bleichmar, | Title: That Obscure Object of Desire: | 3/17/1994 | See Source »

...have to be a dance scholar to get most of the jokes. There are lightning tours of the classics: the distinctive, flattened arm gestures in L'Apres-Midi d'un Faun, several quotes from Swan Lake, including the Prince's defiance as his mother points imperiously at her wedding ring -- "No, I will not marry any of these boring girls" -- and so on up to Paul Taylor's Airs. As White Oak continues to tour (Washington; Cleveland, Ohio; Atlanta; and Minneapolis, Minnesota, are among the upcoming cities), Misha will vary the jokes on whim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DANCE: Thoroughly Modern Misha | 3/14/1994 | See Source »

Shevardnadze and other near abroad leaders seem convinced that such strong- arm tactics indicate a resurgence of the imperialist impulses that dominated Russia's czarist and communist regimes for centuries. But from Russia's standpoint, such actions are simply part of the diplomatic repertoire of any great nation that, by virtue of its size and wealth, exerts influence over its smaller neighbors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Happens If the Big Bad Bear Awakes? | 3/14/1994 | See Source »

...Israeli government truly wants peace for its people and for the Palestinians, it will have to approach peace as boldly as it approached the Occupation and settlements. Disarm and remove the Israeli settlers; arm and empower Palestinian police for the territories. Give the Palestinians resources and room and responsibility and they may have what they need to create the viable homeland they deserve. Then there might be peace. Jonathan F. Dresner Graduate Student History Department

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Israel Should Disarm Settlers | 3/5/1994 | See Source »

...within its obvious tragedy, but the submersion is so delicate that the tragedy at times seems to fade. But while Hector does manage to transform "peace of God" into "pizza of God," somewhere amid the IV sacks and experimental treatments he loses the pizza as well. His humor, an arm against fear, will not protect him, and although he dreams or perhaps even sees the Deds ultimately walking arm in arm, he will die. He is attached to death...

Author: By Daniel N. Halpern, | Title: Kondoleon's Lost Boy Laughs at Death | 2/24/1994 | See Source »

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