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...nephew of outspoken Harvard Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, MIT junior Adam Dershowitz, did his uncle proud last month by successfully challenging his school's policy on pornography, which he deliberately broke by showing a sexually explicit movie last February...

Author: By Lisa J. Goodall, | Title: A Younger Dershowitz Argues Porn Case | 12/5/1987 | See Source »

Dershowitz showed the porn film Deep Throat to a registration day audience last February in an attack on the pornography policy, which prohibits the presentation of sexually explicit films on registration...

Author: By Lisa J. Goodall, | Title: A Younger Dershowitz Argues Porn Case | 12/5/1987 | See Source »

...rule that prohibited showing unapproved sexually explicit films on registration day was formulated in response to a student tradition of showing pornographic films on that...

Author: By Lisa J. Goodall, | Title: A Younger Dershowitz Argues Porn Case | 12/5/1987 | See Source »

...elsewhere in the country. But the italicized new is the operative word, and interesting as the creations of young New England restaurant chefs may be, they water down the regional impact of the book. Judith Jones, one of the country's most respected cookbook editors, provides recipes that are explicit and complete. Her husband Evan, an accomplished writer on American food, makes the travel and history narratives equally tempting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Down-Home Around the World | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

What it possesses instead is the slow, hypnotic fascination of an enormous puzzle being assembled piece by piece. Perec makes his jigsaw methods quite explicit. One of the residents in the apartment house is a wealthy Englishman named Percival Bartlebooth, whose past, along with those of dozens of other tenants, gradually emerges. In 1925, Bartlebooth embarks on the rigid program he has mapped out for the rest of his life. He spends ten years learning how to paint watercolors. For the next 20 years he travels the globe, rendering one seaport scene roughly every two weeks and sending each painting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jigsaws Life: a User's Manual | 11/23/1987 | See Source »

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