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...greatly enjoyed Eric Pulier's op-ed piece, "The Reading Period Blues". Certainly all undergraduates agree that the Harvard academic calendar, which Grinch-like steals the joy from our holidays then welcomes us back with two weeks in a pressure cooker as we try to do special Reading Period reading assignments, write term papers and prepare for exams all at once, seems to be the offspring of sadism and dementia, kept alive by tradition. I know I did, until I learned The One True Reason the academic calendar will never be changed to put finals before Christmas...
...survived the cultural gorge-and-puke of the early '80s, the manic starmaking and the pressure on immature talent -- all due, presumably, to wither in the hangover from the bull market. Rothenberg's anxious but unhurried cast of mind was somehow fortified in the pressure cooker. Her current show at New York City's Sperone Westwater gallery (through Nov. 14) is in some respects her best...
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...dark, sewers, funerals, the idea of being buried alive, cancer, heart attacks, the number 13, black cats and walking under ladders. In the process of merchandising his own terrors, he developed an infallible formula: "First you create people that you want to live, then you put them into the cooker." Carrie, the paranormal adolescent, was succeeded by the vampires of 'Salem's Lot (1975), the haunted hotel of The Shining (1977), the deadly superflu of The Stand (1978). The clairvoyant young man of The Dead Zone (1979) placed King on the best-seller list for more than six months, replaced...
...Rather than sit down to a feast each night, they often choose to heat and eat a Lean Cuisine or Le Menu frozen dinner. Now comes a convenient appliance in which to cook such solitary repasts: the Half Pint microwave oven. Made by Japan's Sharp Electronics, this compact cooker is small enough (13 in. by 13 in.) to fit snugly into the tiniest studio apartment. It will bake a potato in six minutes, only a tad slower than the four minutes that a typical full-size microwave takes...