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WRITING, COMPOSING, and directing a musical all by yourself, especially while holding a job and studying at Harvard, must be hard work. In doing exactly that with It's Really Me, Lisa Davenport '88 has clearly bitten off more than she can chew...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Harvard Theater | 3/19/1987 | See Source »

...tried to push her down with his horns. She could neither run nor scream. The buffalo pushed her into the water with his nose. Memusi had a dream about a lion's attacking and biting, and she tried to scream but could not. Lekerenka could not scream, either, when bitten in his dreams by a spitting cobra. He woke up crawling on the ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

...very mention of Aquino's name. When Cory spoke before a joint session of Congress, she received the most thunderous reception given any foreign leader in more than a generation. Indeed, the entire U.S. tour, observed a State Department official who accompanied her, was "staggeringly successful. She had hard-bitten politicians eating out of her hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Woman of the Year | 1/5/1987 | See Source »

...business (1985 revenues: $4.8 billion), and is said to be looking for buyers who will take on others. Meanwhile, speculation is increasing that the next item to get the ax may be the "acting" portion of Tisch's CEO title. As Tisch himself has put it, "I've been bitten by CBS. It's got great potential...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Cut Above the Ordinary | 12/22/1986 | See Source »

When Poindexter did finally decide to take a rare initiative with the press, announcing a South Africa policy review last month, the news captured front-page headlines, but he was bitten by both the White House and State Department. Speakes complained that the significance of the review was overstated and Secretary of State George Shultz considered the pronouncement premature. While allowing that Poindexter, who holds a Ph.D. in nuclear physics, has a brilliant analytical mind, his critics contend that he is such a poor communicator that he cannot brief the Great Communicator in the big- picture, skip-the-details style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Shy Fellow on the Firing Line | 7/28/1986 | See Source »

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