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...listened to rock 'n' roll to show that they were better--freer, wilder--than their parents. We listened to our music to show that we were better--worldlier, smarter--than our peers. Sure, the '60s had cult bands like the Velvet Underground, but G.I.s in the Mekong Delta and grad students with deferments all listened to the Doors. When Madison Avenue later tried to reach them, it did so with songs like the Beatles' Revolution that were part of everybody's pop-culture patrimony. Only by the '80s could there be a thing called "college rock": music defined not just...
...Goldman-Rakic is as driven as a junior researcher just out of grad school. Her next goal? "A theory of [the entire cerebral] cortical functional architecture down to the level of individual neurons and functional circuits would be very nice," she says. Nice, indeed...
...shape executives should restructure their physique by using the same techniques that have made them successful in business. That's the thesis of The Business Plan for the Body, a summer best seller. Author Jim Karas is a Wharton grad and former options trader and money manager who now works as a $10,000-a-week fitness consultant based in Chicago. He advises dieters to approach weight loss as a business with a twist--you want to spend more than you take in. Think of calories eaten as revenue and calories burned by exercise as expenditures, he writes. Publicly announce...
...inspired by my coworkers—whose real jobs are my summer job— I wonder over my expensive habits and what is a minimum living for me, and hope like heck that I don’t get too greedy after the dream-corrosion of grad school and student loans...
...born to the role: son of a Boston executive, prep-school boy, Harvard grad, a Navy ensign (like Mister Roberts' Pulver). From the start he was a master of comic timing, of the buttoned-down double take. That flummoxed look paired nicely with his ricochet vocal rhythms--he'd race through phrases, then put a twist on the crucial word. Unlike most other Hollywood actors, who relax and seem to bathe in their star quality, Lemmon worked hard. He let you read his reading of the character. His acting was less about being than about doing...