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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Brown is far too intelligent to import wholesale the Vanity Fair formula, or to attempt a baldfaced reprise of her resuscitating strategies at that publication. Her New Yorker contains vestigial remains of her predecessors' magazine...

Author: By Lorraine Lezama, | Title: Longing for the Old New Yorker | 10/6/1993 | See Source »

...Cleverness" has become a hackneyed formula, leaving campus publicity a self-defeating game. In order to get to any useful information, one must mine under kiosks full of weak attempts at humor. This problem cuts across the spectrum of extra-curricular activities...

Author: By Benjamin J. Heller, | Title: Life is Short--Poster Hard | 10/2/1993 | See Source »

...night to remember last May at the Italian restaurant Bice in downtown Tokyo. The room was agog because among the diners were two middle-aged men, one burly, the other downright fat. They sat around jawing about sports -- soccer, tennis, Formula 1 auto racing. At one point they turned to chat about fashion with a neighboring party of awed Italians. The cause of the stir was that the two amiable gents were the world's most famous opera singers and among the richest and best-known entertainers in any field: Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Two Knights of the Opera | 9/27/1993 | See Source »

...People ask if there's a Pudding formula," Nye said. "It is always a musical-comedy, a drag show, and ends with akick-line. But the plot is always different...

Author: By Robin J. Stamm, | Title: Romans in Drag Are Pudding Show Stars | 9/24/1993 | See Source »

There is no formula to gauge whether a student should be admitted or rejected, admissions officials say, and subjective criteria such as extracurricular activities and personal qualities also play a significant role. The Stonecypher complaint takes issue with the soft criteria the admissions office uses, and focuses on the issue of race...

Author: By Melissa Lee, | Title: White Applicant Says Black Admit Favored | 9/17/1993 | See Source »

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