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...Harvard has bigger fish to fry. And the skillet will be re-lit, starting this Friday night...

Author: By Darren Kilfara, | Title: Bigger Fish to Fry | 2/16/1994 | See Source »

...absurd and obtuse it must seem, then, to look at books entitled "There's no such thing as free speech, and it's a good thing too!" Stanley Fish, the author of this book (published by Oxford!), and his fellow-travellers along the postmodern abyss do not really mean what they say, do they...

Author: By Dan E. Markel, | Title: No Flowers for Rushdie | 2/14/1994 | See Source »

...What is Fish thinking? How rich the moronic irony is when one write not from the sweaty cellars of "safe houses," but rather from the oh-so-radical perspective of Duke University's English department chair. It is Rushdie who must now conjure up an Imaginary Homeland. Fish, mean while, never had his taken away...

Author: By Dan E. Markel, | Title: No Flowers for Rushdie | 2/14/1994 | See Source »

...People feel they have to be secretive," saysGideonse. "You're in a fish bowl and everyone seeswhat you're doing and its prone to gossip...

Author: By Sandhya R. Rao, | Title: Valentines Reflect On Harvard Love | 2/14/1994 | See Source »

...certainly is a lively venue for dealmaking. At least four films picked up distributors during this year's festival: Go Fish, a lesbian comedy (to be released by Goldwyn); Spanking the Monkey, a startling drama about incest that won the audience prize for best dramatic feature (Fine Line); Clerks, a low- budget comedy set in a convenience store (Miramax); and Martha and Ethel, a documentary about two lifelong nannies (Sony Pictures Classics). Several other movies are under negotiation with distributors, among them Hoop Dreams, a nearly three-hour documentary about two ghetto youths aiming for basketball success that was perhaps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Redford's Mountain | 2/14/1994 | See Source »

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