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ERNIE CHRISTIAN, former deputy secretary of the Treasury for tax policy during Connally's tenure, now the top tax technician at Patten, Biggs and Blow, seemed to understand that the tax plan he had helped to conjure up for Chrysler was just one way to get the federal government to...

Author: By Celia W. Dugger, | Title: Chrysler Squeezes the Feds | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

Approach #4. The Cultivated Superiority Approach. Prerequisite: before you arrive in Cambridge, compile a list of things that you have done or that your family owns that are sure to impress anybody. A subdivision of this is Intellectual One-Upmanship. If your new roommate has read all of Proust's...

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: Six Ways to Survive | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

Liberal education and enlightment notwithstanding, "straight" people often speak from their liberal heads and act from their fear-ridden guts. This may explain in the final analysis the recent non-discrimination clause regarding sexual preference passed by the Law School, concomitant with the bigoted actions of the residents of Stoughton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gays at Harvard | 8/10/1979 | See Source »

The first murder is one of the most revolting yet put on film. It put me off my popcorn, and I'm not easily nauseated. Alien operates thereafter on our anticipation of similar blood and guts; the tension is totally mechanical and rather unfair. The movie proves witless, plotless, pointless...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: The Beast in All of Us | 7/3/1979 | See Source »

DUKE reached his epiphany, as it were, on his deathbed, when he converted to Catholicism. That's not American, that's Italian. That image sticks with you: Wayne gone puling in supplication to God, a pathetic last-ditch stab at atoning for a lifetime of atrocities before his bulldozer goes...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Ding Dong | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

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