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Troy is just the kind of broody lout a young woman like Lelaina goes for, despite the fact that junior TV-exec Michael (played by Stiller) is wooing her. Their triangle provides what passes for narrative structure, and its resolution is perhaps just a little too Brady Bunch -- that is, too nice and neat. But that's a small price to pay for a movie in which Vickie, confronting a small, unexpected example of decency, finds it "screws up all my old ideas of good and evil." And in which a despondent Lelaina, seeking solace from an 800-number therapist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Young and the Restive | 2/21/1994 | See Source »

Jonathan Samuels, Exec. Editor Dartmouth 33 Harvard...

Author: By John B. Trainer, | Title: Harvard vs. Dartmouth: One of the All-Time Greats | 10/30/1993 | See Source »

CAMERA ROAMS AROUND THE TABLE--the camera zooms in on the face of each studio exec, revealing well-tanned, yet suitably-stubbled visages...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Astaire, Rogers...Stallone, Getty | 2/27/1992 | See Source »

Referring to a letter printed in The Crimson last Saturday, Aretha D. Davis '93, who is not a member of the council, asked Aronberg to account for his behavior at an exec utive board meeting to review allegations of campaign wrongdoings by a newly elected council member...

Author: By D. RICHARD De silva, | Title: Aronberg Elected Chair of Council | 10/15/1991 | See Source »

This oddly lifeless gossip novel by Michael Korda, a publishing exec whose works include the yuppie missals Success! and Power!, is the sort called a roman a clef by the French and "serving up something for the shopgirls" by the English. There is a patronizing quality to the central notion, which is that the reader is a lowbrow who will have naughty fun -- "coo, oi didn't know that about 'er" -- guessing which real-life celebrities are behaving scandalously behind aliases and sketchy disguises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sleeping Pill!: CURTAIN by Michael Korda | 3/18/1991 | See Source »

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