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Kelly is a self-proclaimed "faculty-brat" whogrew up in the vicinity of the University of NorthCarolina at Chapel Hill and studies there as anundergraduate...

Author: By Tara H. Arden smith, | Title: Medieval Music Expert Accepts Tenure Offer | 4/6/1994 | See Source »

...most controversial song, If That's Your Boyfriend (He Wasn't Last Night), she sings of cheerfully taking away a friend's mate. Feminists have deplored the unsisterly politics, while gays have accused her of trying to mask her sexuality. NdegeOcello -- a U.S. Army brat who was born in Berlin but raised in Washington -- calls herself gay but says she has also been attracted to men; she has a four-year-old son, Askia. "How can I dislike or distance myself from men," she says, "when I have to raise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rhymes Of Passion | 2/7/1994 | See Source »

...there," the filmgoer can believe, "me as I'd love to look, dare to act, hope to be." And for kids, always looking for lessons in moral etiquette, young actors can become the arbiters of glamour. Their bodies are temples to which anyone may bring offerings. Brat Packers' offscreen exploits fulfill a legend that fits Hollywood's melodramatic taste and tempo. They run hard, punish themselves and expect to live forever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: His Own Private Agony | 11/15/1993 | See Source »

...enjoyed working with the cast and the director, although she did have a few qualms about the boy who played her husband in the movie, she said. "He was a brat in real life, too," she remarked...

Author: By Sunah N. Kim, | Title: Hollywood or Chem 10? | 11/11/1993 | See Source »

...only half-correct in thinking that all possible permutations of the East-meets-West (or vice-versa) story have been exhausted. An American Brat, Bapsi Sidhwa's newest novel, rehashes the most standard of formulas, The Immigrant Experience, with all of the accoutrements of our post-modern world, including duty-free items. Sidhwas's immigrant, the 16-year-old Feroza, comes to America not out of destitution or lack of opportunity; rather, a three month holiday in America offers Feroza relief from the monotony of her life in Lahore, Pakistan...

Author: By Anita Jain, | Title: East Meets West, Again | 10/21/1993 | See Source »

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