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...astronomer whose obsession is to study the supernova in Chile, and his mother Polly, a professional photographer who feels as though she does not spend enough time with her children. And Hoffman also introduces us to the 11 year-old Amanda, whose goals are simple--to study gymnastics with Bela Karyouli and to have her braces...
...artwork on the cereal box was meant to entertain breakfast eaters, but it wound up appalling some of them instead. A new package for General Mills' Count Chocula breakfast cereal features a rendering of Bela Lugosi from the 1931 film Dracula. Around the vampire's neck hangs a pendant that resembles a six-pointed Star of David, the symbol of Judaism. When the boxes first appeared in stores last month, offended shoppers complained to the Minneapolis-based company. After the Cleveland Jewish News (circ. 15,000) picked up the story, General Mills agreed to change the box cover...
...signs fo the vitality of a discipline is the existence of disparate points of view among researchers in that discipline. Yet Women's Studies professors everywhere speak with one voice. Are there any Phyllis Schlaflys teaching Women's Studies? Any Jerry Fallwells? Anyone who disagrees significantly with Gloria Steinem, Bela Abzug, et al? I didn't think so. So what makes Women's Studies any more academically viable than any other political agenda...
...commentator at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. "I had to stop my real education in the tenth grade," says Retton of her decision. She didn't want to look back later and "wish I went to college." Her first English paper was on her coach Bela Karolyi. "It was supposed to be descriptive, and I know him very well," explains Retton. "I got good comments on it." That doesn't sound like a 10, but close enough...
...subtitle, America's Magic Mountain, refers to Thomas Mann's novel of a sanatorium as microcosm. Fair enough; this lively history reflects a galaxy of medical and literary incidents. The cast is worth the entrance fee: W. Somerset Maugham and Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walker Percy and Bela Bartok, and even Gerald and Sara Murphy, the '20s couple who decided that living well was the best revenge. They all had one thing in common: tuberculosis, and the refuge in upstate New York offered the promise of recovery. Sometimes it was illusory. Bartok flourished at Saranac but later succumbed to the disease...