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Parents, Lovers, and Other Problems unfolds in the Dunster House Dining Hall, decorated with enough panache to help you forget the the real setting. The place is transformed into a cabaret--small, candlelit tables dot the floor, and drinks and snacks are served to the audience...

Author: By Daniel J. Lehman, | Title: Sondheim AIDS Show Benefits All | 4/27/1990 | See Source »

Jews are news. It is an axiom of journalism. An indispensable axiom, too, because it is otherwise impossible to explain why the deeds and misdeeds of dot-on-the-map Israel get an absurdly disproportionate amount of news coverage around the world. If you are trying to guess how much coverage any Middle East event received, and you are permitted but one question, the best question you can ask about the event is: Were there any Jews in the vicinity? The paradigmatic case is the page in the International Herald Tribune that devoted seven of its eight columns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Judging Israel | 2/26/1990 | See Source »

Next, let's peer into the dining hall-- any dining hall. Wait, look upon those heads. Are they dunce caps? Are they beanies? NO! They are baseball hats that dot the dining hall like the little beacons of no-home-training which they represent. You do not, I repeat, you do not wear hats at the table. Not only is that inconsiderate to your neighbors, but it is extremely barbaric...

Author: By Lamonte G. Lucas, | Title: Manners, Anyone? | 2/10/1990 | See Source »

Despite a U.S. Supreme Court decision last March that affirmed the testing of railroad and Customs workers under certain conditions, drug screening faces heated challenges. Last week a federal appeals court halted all testing for 195,500 mass-transit workers. An injunction also prevents the DOT from requiring random or postaccident tests for 3 million truck and bus drivers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Here Come the Specimen Jars | 1/29/1990 | See Source »

...given me needs. Now I need my ClownCar. My clown hat. My clown shoes. And my funky,poke-a-dot clown suspenders...

Author: By David L. Rettig, | Title: A FABLE | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

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