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...stuffing American art down European throats are now selling Europeans to Americans; beneath all the excited talk of how American cultural imperialism has at last been rejected, and how national artists in Germany or Italy dominate the cultural horizon, the same mechanisms of the market grind imperturbably on. Last year it was young Italian artists-Cucchi, Chia, Clemente; this year, Germans...
...mental health facilities, sees a number of Harvard undergraduates, graduate students, and even Harvard employees in her practice. "At Harvard there is a lot of pressure to achieve socially, academically and careere-wise, and for many people food can become the anaesthetic that dulls their mind from the constant grind," she says. Marlene Boskind-White, a New York psychotherapist who deals with eating disorders, places much of the blame for the problem on the high standards the modern women feels she must live up to. "We have to be thin, beautiful, in good health; and on top of that...
Sometime before you pack your bag and head home for the holidays it hits you. An oasis of free time away from the academic grind is not the only thing staring you in the face; there is, also, the riddling annual question of what to get those folks waiting eagerly at home to embrace...
...write me nasty letters, dear women readers. I'm just reporting what I saw, and what I feel I'm supposed to feel. Someone's actually spent millions and millions of dollars to make Halloween II and it doesn't go to the bump-and-grind houses; for a couple of weeks it was the highest-grossing film in the country. The theatre was filled when I saw it, but not densely packed: generally the single men keep a few seats between them, the better to maintain their reverie...
...formation plays failed to gain a yard. Villanueva's effort pushed the ball inside the Yale 35, but even without Diana (who had retired to the sidelines earlier to the tune of a semi-standing ovation from the Yale side and silence from the other), the Elis continued to grind down the clock with the rush. Face with a fourth and four, Diana returned but couldn't gain the yardage, and Harvard took over just inside midfield with six minutes left...