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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although books in the undergraduate libraries bear a warning that deliberate markings are grounds for disciplinary action, this provision seems to be enforced rarely if at all. Gumchewing, Walkman-clad culprits crowd the libraries, marking the books in neon pink, sky blue, or margarine yellow. Of course, the highlighter pen is not the only device used to destroy Harvard's books. Some annotaters opt for the more efficient method of making brackets in the margins--which at least annoys future readers a little less. Others add their own insights. "This is stupid," or "Imperialistic bull"--as if to clue...

Author: By Naomi L. Pierce, | Title: Battered Books | 5/25/1984 | See Source »

...waitress who through a hilarious (it says here) series of events becomes a State Department protocol officer. Not amused, however, was the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. Some extras who answered a casting call for "Arab-looking" types started a protest after seeing the script, which satirizes the kaffiyeh-clad emissaries of a mythical Middle Eastern kingdom. Worry about adverse publicity led Executive Producer Hawn and the film's other bosses to agree to consider eliminating some of the more offensive material. Isn't that what protocol is all about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 14, 1984 | 5/14/1984 | See Source »

...success story could have come from California's Silicon Valley. Three young, blue-jeans-clad engineers tinkered with computer ideas in a garage and eventually designed a successful desktop machine. Their company, Scopus, grew so rapidly that by 1983 it had sales of $26 million. But this is not just another California start-up-to-success story. Housed in a modest concrete building, the eight-year-old firm operates out of a rundown industrial neighborhood on the outskirts of Sao Paulo, Brazil's biggest city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Copacomputer | 4/23/1984 | See Source »

Minutes later, Jamie (Rick Springfield), fleeing his bathroom, races across the screen, a company of excited fans not far behind. Outside his bathroom, a disgruntled song writer swings a broken wine bottle threateningly at Jamie's band, forcing him to flee towel-clad into the auditorium. Borrowing a pair of potato-sack fashioned pants from his assistant, Jame races off, his hair somehow blow-dried along the way until evidently traumatized by the ordeal of screaming fans clawing at his skin-tight clothes on stage and the real goods afterwards, he loses control of his car, totaling a vegetable stand...

Author: By Clark J. Freshman, | Title: Hard to Handle | 4/17/1984 | See Source »

EVEN THE OBVIOUSLY REAL scenes take on a dream-like quality. At the beginning, Eugenia visits a small chapel, a shrine to the Madonna of Childbirth. The chapel is half-dark, with ancient rows of pillars lit by hundreds of fluttering candles. All about, black clad women are performing the rituals of worship. Eugenia finds that she cannot bring herself to kneel, and asks the sacristan why only women are worshipping. He tells her that child-bearing and the church are their business; she says nothing in reply. All of a sudden, the air is full of small birds that...

Author: By Hanne-marie Maijala, | Title: Gorgeous Pictures, Little Else | 4/3/1984 | See Source »

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