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...earlier days, administrators might have answered that there was, in fact, no place for Lee. But incoming Chair Gates and outgoing Chair Barbara Johnson have made creative use of Harvard's ability to appoint visiting lecturers. The result: a guest stint by Lee that will give the moribund department a dynamic lift and could well inspire other scholars to check out Harvard's Afro-Am--and maybe even to accept tenure here...
SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY. A suave beast (Patrick Bergin) tracks down his abused wife (Julia Roberts) after she has faked her death and escaped his clutches. A good idea for a feminist thriller soon degenerates, under Joseph Ruben's direction, into a wheezy lady-in-distress melodrama. Paging Barbara Stanwyck...
...suspicious of real estate industry hope and hype, listen to Barbara Allen, housing-industry analyst for Kidder, Peabody: "It's more than a little upturn. It's quite powerful, and it is across the country. In Chicago orders in the resale market for the first two months of the year were up smartly. In St. Louis the place is absolutely booming." Realtors who were doing the crosswords a month ago now have waiting rooms full of eager clients...
...Barbara Allen of Kidder, Peabody estimates U.S. demand for new housing at 1.3 million to 1.4 million units a year for the next 10 years, including replacement housing. Yet little is being invested in land development, and as Allen points out, "You can't build a house unless you have a lot that has all the roads, permits and governmental O.K.s. It takes a long time...
...Jane Van Tassel (Department Heads); Audrey Ball, Bernard Baumohl, David Bjerklie, Rosemary Byrnes, Val Castronovo, Nancy McD. Chase, Georgia Harbison, Michael P. Harris, Anne Hopkins, Katherine Mihok, Nancy Newman, Susan M. Reed, Elizabeth Rudulph, Zona Sparks, William Tynan, Sidney Urquhart, Susanne Washburn (Senior Staff); Elizabeth L. Bland, Kathleen Brady, Barbara Burke, Wendy Cole, Tom Curry, Andrea Dorfman, David Ellis, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Mary McC. Fernandez, Janice M. Horowitz, Jeanette Isaac, Sinting Lai, Daniel S. Levy, Michael Quinn, Megan Rutherford, Andrea Sachs, Patricia Santella, Sophfronia Scott, David Seideman, David E. Thigpen, Leslie Whitaker, Linda Williams, Linda Young