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And the years in teaching have apparently paid off: students praise the professor as tough--engineering is not a concentration noted for its large offering of guts--but also humorous, accessible and interesting. One student calls him "an amiable fellow."
She had never lost them. At 38, Winger is no longer Hollywood's prime smart cutie. But this dangerous woman is still a beautiful one, with the searchlight intelligence radiating from her blue eyes and the seeming spontaneity, even surprise, at the corners of her famous smile. And her pretty...
Can one imagine a painter like Freud emerging in America today? It's hard to, maybe impossible. He affronts too many orthodoxies, starting with the central one: the belief that realism -- the painting of things from direct observation, warts and all -- is dead or, at best, irrelevant. You may quote...
To any outside observer not yet enamored of the white elephant known as the Core, the solution would be obvious. The Core's goals need not be accomplished by setting up scores of new courses that are soon labeled as "guts." Why not draw up a list from the regular...
Bomber's Law by George V. Higgins (Henry Holt; 296 pages) would work superbly as a play, and if you typed it up in scenes and acts instead of chapters, that's what it would be. Scene 1 sets matters moving briskly, though without corpses or car chases: two cops...