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Baby's story is fairly simple. He is brought into the world by a couple whose talent for parenting is exemplified by their belief that he is a girl, until at 15 he tells them otherwise. He is subject to fits of extreme depression during which he will lie down...

Author: By Frances T. Ruml, | Title: Bringing Up Baby | 4/5/1983 | See Source »

The charts are based on data from 4.2 million people who were tracked by 25 insurance companies for more than two decades. Statisticians correlated weight to longevity, taking into account body frame size. (This is determined by bending an arm at a right angle and measuring the distance between the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pass the Eclairs, Please | 3/14/1983 | See Source »

This work is full of vividly powerful but understand scenes that capture perfectly the heightened sense of ordinary life that the characters are leading. The entire group as they huddle around a tree listening for their village to blow up, think thoughts that range from the sublime ("And so our...

Author: By Jeen-christophe Castelli, | Title: Italian Fireworks | 3/7/1983 | See Source »

The hottest Hollywood directors know how to make thrillers, comedies, love stories, even the arrant musical. But few have chosen to dramatize what they have learned best: the secrets of power. These are the film industry's true guilty pleasures-the devilish legerdemain of dealmaking, the bending of a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Power Plays | 3/7/1983 | See Source »

In its brief but contentious history, the Core has come under attacks from two quarters: those who condemn it as an authoritarian imposition on students, and those who condemn it for failing to tell students what is important and what is not. When the Core was under construction, the pages...

Author: By Phyllis Keller, | Title: L'Esprit de Core | 3/5/1983 | See Source »

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