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...Clive Sinclair: Small Is Beautiful
...Poirier plays an impeccably bland mom. Douglas Faigel does a very lovely pretty boy as Jimmy's friend Kurtis. Susan Damplo provides a sharp-tongued fall to Jimmy as his sister Millicent and David Fruloll's expressive eyes make up or his less-than convincing stoop as the servant Clive...
...habit of applauding is responsible for another phenomenon peculiar to Harvard hissing. This one, Thernstrom reflects gives proceedings "a slight element of spice." While most professors share Thernstrom's benevolent acceptance of good natured hissing. "If one tells a bad pun, one deserves to be hissed," John L. Clive, Kenan Professor of History and Literature asserts many students feel hissing has no place in the lecture hall. "It's very disruptive," says Tracy Rouse. "Students hiss down questions if they don't like them like this morning in Chem...
While it remains difficult to evaluate the mindset of an unapplauded lecturer, it's fairly easy to gauge how applause receivers feel. "No one who is honest about it," Clive says, "dislikes the applause." And freshmen seem prepared to continue this unique Harvard tradition. "It's like tipping," Gruber says. "If the waiter serves real slowly, you're still going to tip 15 percent...
Belmares is one of the ever growing number of consumers being drawn into the market for home computers by an all-out price war that erupted last month. Spurred by the prospects of Christmas shopping, computer makers have slashed prices on their least expensive models. As a result, says Clive Smith of the Boston-based Yankee Group, a leading electronics analyst, sales are expected to explode from a mere 35,000 in 1980 to 1.5 million this year. Smith sees shipments rising to a dazzling 3.5 million in 1983. Says Barbara Isgur, an industry watcher for the Wall Street firm...