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...comfy lyrics sold 7 million copies of albums and videotapes during the early 1980s and transformed children's music from a backwater populated mainly by folk singers and people who performed preachy songs in funny voices into a booming business. Raffi has since retired from entertaining the peanut-butter-and-jelly crowd, but major record labels and musicians of every persuasion, from rock to reggae and from country to cabaret, have picked up on Raffi's riff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Than Child's Play | 11/9/1992 | See Source »

...Because of arrogance and inertia, GM has fallen out of touch with its customers. Except for products of GM's Saturn and Pontiac divisions, young drivers increasingly spurn the company's cars for Japanese makes or other U.S. models. The median ages for buyers of GM's bread-and-butter midsize lines are 45 for Chevrolet, 55 for Oldsmobile and 60 for Buick. By contrast, the ages of U.S. buyers of Japanese cars range from 35 to 40. GM has foundered while the more nimble Ford and Chrysler, which had long scrambled for niches in the GM-dominated marketplace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Went Wrong? Everything at Once. | 11/9/1992 | See Source »

Harvard, for some reason, wants to move the Union. Maybe the heads of the school have something against antlers and old butter pats. Maybe the powers that be are tired of having to walk past first year students on their way to the faculty club. Whatever the reason, they are convinced that the Union must go and that a student center will help us get over its demise...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: A Day in the Boylston Student Center | 10/3/1992 | See Source »

...sense, this apartment is the nicest one I will have for many, many years," says Zikherman as she surveyed the refrigerator she stocked with hot dogs, yogurt, peanut butter and pita bread. "But it's also a pain in the neck and I'd much rather be in the Yard...

Author: By Joe Mathews, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Is 29 Garden Street Paradise Found? Or Paradise Lost? | 9/21/1992 | See Source »

...with time, a truly prophetic aura. One of these is Eternity (1935). Three pedestals in a museum, with a red rope stretched in front of them. On the left one, a medieval head of Christ. On the right, a head of Dante. In the center, a block of butter. A jab at the contented Belgian stomach, 60 years ago; but today you can't help thinking of the lumps of fat by Joseph Beuys that are enshrined in the world's museums, as though Magritte had been conducting satire in advance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Poker-Faced Enchanter | 9/21/1992 | See Source »

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