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Back to the Future is based on the rather improbable events which ensue when an eccentric scientist (Christopher Lloyd) accidently sends a young man named Marty (Michael J. Fox) 30 years into the past. Once enmeshed in this dilemma, Marty's job is not only to get from 1955 to 1985, but to make sure that his parents meet and fall in love so that he has an existence to return...

Author: By Anne Tobias, | Title: Let's Do the Timewarp Again | 10/17/1985 | See Source »

...Condors are far more interesting, perhaps because narrative quickens in the presence of evil and strife. John Milton faced such a problem when he portrayed Satan in Paradise Lost, and Le Guin, working on a different level, explicitly acknowledges the dilemma. One of the chorus of voices in the book belongs to Pandora, who seems to represent both the character from Greek mythology and contemporary Western consciousness. Through the magic of time travel, Pandora converses with a Kesh woman librarian. These enlightened people routinely throw away books and documents. As the dialogue continues, Pandora grows frustrated. "I never did like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: History of an Imagined World Always Coming Home | 10/14/1985 | See Source »

...What a dilemma. The more students talk about drinking, the more they are asking the University and community groups to crack down. Even though, of course, about 98 percent of Harvard students don't drive at Harvard--only 97 students registered cars last year, according to Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III. Even though, by making the campus restrictive, students will be encouraged to wander elsewhere in search of alcohol and perhaps get into more trouble...

Author: By Victoria G.T. Bassetti, | Title: Flaunting the Law, Creatively | 10/5/1985 | See Source »

...some professors face a clear dilemma in moving into the Core or department offerings...

Author: By Victoria G. T. bassetti, | Title: General Education: A Relic From the Past | 9/30/1985 | See Source »

...more wide-ranging dilemma faces political leaders and parents of schoolchildren over whether youngsters with AIDS should be allowed to attend school if they are physically able to do so. New York City's decision to permit a single unidentified seven-year-old girl with AIDS to enter a second- grade class provoked an angry parental boycott in two Queens school districts, and a lawsuit has been filed seeking a reversal of school-board policy. In a bizarre twist to that case last week, the attorney representing the second- grader announced that there is evidence that the child does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Gala with a Grim Side | 9/30/1985 | See Source »

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