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Take, for instance, William D. Cole, a grad student who is the head teaching fellow for a popular core course. Framed by the doorway of Boylston, he wears a 100 percent cotton "Harvard Bridge" tee-shirt. His gray shorts and sweat socks with blue stripes match impeccably. The white leather tennis shoes with gray trim add a perfect final touch...

Author: By Eryn R. Brown, | Title: Graduate Student Fashions: From The Tres Tres Chic To Just Plain Old Tres Chic | 9/12/1990 | See Source »

...summer-stock barn or tent, like so many fledgling players of times past. Instead, the tyro tap dancers, crooners and thespians would probably hie themselves to the nearest theme park or cruise ship to audition for a job. Theme parks may be more conspicuous for flume rides and cotton candy, and cruise ships may be best known for bingo and buffets. But they have become the summer stock of the '90s, the place where growing numbers of young performers get their first experience in entertaining live audiences -- and where many audience members, particularly young ones, first see live theater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Where The Stagestruck Get Started | 8/13/1990 | See Source »

...realize the importance ofinternational exchange," said Mary Cotton, whoheads the American Red Cross' AIDS educationprogram. "Anything that restricts our ability todo that is a tragedy."Crimson File PhotoHARVEY V. FINEBERG...

Author: By Adam K. Goodheart, | Title: University Lobbying On AIDS Legislation | 6/29/1990 | See Source »

...dark-haired guy went quietly back to his notebook. Around him you could see a little ripple of embarrassment fan through the room, people's cotton-candy concerns about deadlines and format policies going damp in their mouths...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Bringing Home the World: Exploring the Margins | 6/7/1990 | See Source »

Gone are the days when buying your daily bread simply meant tossing a cotton- soft white loaf into a grocery cart. More and more shoppers these days are trekking to local bakeries and specialty shops -- often braving long lines and empty bins -- in search of gourmet loaves of all sizes and shapes: rosemary, garlic and poppy wands with a crackling-hard crust; dense bricks dotted with specks of flax, sunflower and sesame seeds; onion sourdough baguettes; and mammoth 4-lb. pumpkin-like affairs made from live, wild cultures. "Bread is being rescued from oblivion," says Michael London, owner of Rock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: Bread Goes Upper Crust | 5/7/1990 | See Source »

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