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It seems flagrantly immoral to make sheer entertainment out of something that is so real and so horrifying for the people involved. Yet, one wonders whether, if the coverage had been different, less entertaining, Americans would have cared at all. If turning life into a movie helps us to understand...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Gudrais, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Culture Shock: Entertaining the Masses | 12/11/1998 | See Source »

Guys and Dolls reminds us that there need not be a separation between Harvard and the larger community; what worked at your high school might still be entertaining here. McGuinness claims that, even at Harvard, "something has to be said for having fun." And Guys and Dolls says this very...

Author: By Erwin R. Rosinberg, | Title: Bringing Broadway to the Pudding | 12/9/1998 | See Source »

The persistent and perversely entertaining theme in Ian McEwan's fiction has been the anguish of conflicting moral obligations. For example, should a composer, at the moment he begins to sense how he can complete the symphony that will define his career, abandon his concentration to intervene on behalf of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Moral Low Ground | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

The push for men to express their feelings presumes that we have feelings, and we do have a few, but they remain submerged, and the airing of them often violates their authenticity. We are, as a gender, as dull as we seem. Contrary to the claptrap of the men's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Silent Friendships of Men | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

Colescott's presentation was altogether jovial and comical, so much so that it was misleading. His discussion was so entertaining and his personality so appealing that his friendly manner often served to obscure some incredibly disturbing and offensive ideas he related. He remarked that his goal in art was to...

Author: By Brooke M. Lampley, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Analyzing the Abstract with Colescott | 12/4/1998 | See Source »

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