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...could have written about learning to write papers the night before they're due or about recounting the trauma of an aunt's funeral--for the third or fourth time--the night before a midterm. I could even have written about doing some good work and being happy with it. All these things are part of just about everyone's undergraduate career here, and all of them do matter...

Author: By Michael D. Nolan, | Title: Ah, Diversity | 12/16/1987 | See Source »

...satisfy doctoral requirements or a department chairman's notions of what will advance the discipline. As one proof, the author recalls a Modern Language Association project in which 18 scholars read Tom Sawyer backward to avoid being caught up in the story while they checked how often "Aunt Polly" is written as "aunty Polly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Where Are All the Young Brains? | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

...cliff in it. Her suicide is shot in a way that provokes the biggest laugh in Housekeeping, a movie that is not as funny as some Forsyth fans will claim, but sturdy and rich. All the girls' guardians turn out to be too old for the job, so their Aunt Sylvie (Christine Lahti) is summoned home from her wanderings to take up the task...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Off The Cliff HOUSEKEEPING | 11/23/1987 | See Source »

These were two great tickets. My roommate had secured them from the friend of a friend's aunt. They were the best seats in the entire Yale Bowl. At least that what my roommate's friend's aunt had told my friend's friend who was my rommmate...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Best Seats In The House | 11/20/1987 | See Source »

...cello, or blow smoke rings from his cigar while dressed as an old lady (and later try to kiss someone with the cigar still in his mouth). He convinces both as a foolish young aristocrat and a coquettish old lady. He is the most justified reason that Charley's Aunt should be put on, and that anyone should see it, yet one more time...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: The Farce Side | 11/7/1987 | See Source »

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