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Had the people who made this movie been content to develop that situation lightly, they might have made an inconsequential domestic comedy. But they are abustle with larger, if entirely inchoate, ambitions. They have invested John with a real problem -- alcoholism -- and they have plunked the Learys down on a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Intentions | 3/29/1993 | See Source »

A provost dies and goes to Hell, where the Devil informs him that he will be named president of a university. The provost is excited, but then wonders: What kind of a university could Hell possibly have to offer?

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Provost in Hell | 3/19/1993 | See Source »

"There's often a whole wave of activity, and then when it dies down, the administration forgets about it like usual," Richard Garcia '95, the coalition's spokesperson, said earlier this week. "We want to set up something so the administration will discuss things with the coalition everyday."

Author: By Melissa Lee, | Title: Pushing Onward for Change | 3/19/1993 | See Source »

The authors have taken a standard sitcom premise -- mismatched people, in this case Scott as a college professor and Jami Gertz as the barely literate young volunteer who reads to him because he is blind -- then lumbered it with portentous yet unpursued references to battered women, child abuse, academic plagiarism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Patient Is Impatient | 3/1/1993 | See Source »

Still, many romances clearly endure beyond the first years. What accounts for that? Another set of chemicals, of course. The continued presence of a partner gradually steps up production in the brain of endorphins. Unlike the fizzy amphetamines, these are soothing substances. Natural pain-killers, they give lovers a sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Right Chemistry | 2/15/1993 | See Source »

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