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...from Chicago, wants to stay married to the perceptive and unusually attractive Barbara while vigorously pursuing a dour and uncompliant Parisian named Josephine. Furious, Barbara refers to her straying mate as what could euphemistically be called the lowest part of the digestive system. Josephine calls her suitor a damned fool after he takes her young son to a park without permission. Unattended, little Leo wanders off and is stripped by older boys. Austin's humiliation is compounded by newspaper accounts alleging that he might be a child molester...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: ON THE ROAD WITH DORIS | 7/7/1997 | See Source »

...endnotes: Vote, always vote. You'll feel a fool if you don't. Get a dog. You will not find that touching trust in a human face. Never say the following: "no-brainer," "no problem," "at this point in time" or "focus group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPEECH FOR A HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE | 6/9/1997 | See Source »

...excellent" meal did not fool the new director. Although he took his first meal as director in Annenberg at the 25th reunion dinner on Sunday night, Mayer is focused on the food that undergraduates will find in Annenberg Hall next semester...

Author: By Barbara E. Martinez, | Title: Mayer Spends First Day Serving Alums Steak | 6/3/1997 | See Source »

...Only a fool would say something disrespectful of the Senator at this point in time," says Senator Robert E. Travaglini (D-Boston), one of the two Senators with whom Birmingham shares representation of Cambridge...

Author: By Richard M. Burnes, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Son Of Chelsea Now Atop Beacon Hill | 6/3/1997 | See Source »

...rest of the cast is as solid as one might expect from the ART. Some of the actors choose to exaggerate the comic tendencies of their characters: Ripley turns the incurable romantic, "Ricky-Ticky-Tavy" Octavius into a singing, simpering, sentimental fool; Jack Willis, in a minor satiric role as an American industrialist buying his way into ancient English titles and estates, makes a caricature of himself with his loud, hearty declamations and zestful crudeness of manner. Geidt lacks Mephistophelian finesse as both Mendoza and Satan, but is nicely balanced by Epstein who is superb as the stiffly and stuffily...

Author: By Lynn Y. Lee, | Title: Man, Woman Create Life Force | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

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