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...early 1970s we used to sit around a little caf? and listen to old-timers talk about the harlequin days before the war when Cambodia was full of charm. Even the poor ate well then, we were told. We fervently wanted to believe that some day, when the fighting was over, the country would return to that bucolic ideal. It never happened. The war never really ended, as the pictures in this book painfully remind us. If you look closely around the edges of Neveu's pictures taken in the 1990s you see a modicum of prosperity and happiness creeping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shooting in the Dark | 11/19/2001 | See Source »

Last Friday, under a perfect Cantabridgian sky (magically arranged, of course), academically distinguished men and women garbed in hooded, harlequin robes marched down the middle aisle of Tercentary Theatre to crown a new leader. As the parade began, masses of eager students and onlookers clustered in the audience around flags emblazoned with their Houses to join in the festivities. There was an exchange of silver keys, and the President sat in a magical chair that conferred great power upon him. Meanwhile, a redbrick gate outside carefully concealed the proceedings from the oblivious Muggle passersby...

Author: By Robert J. Fenster, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Cauldron of Empty Metaphors | 10/17/2001 | See Source »

...into Isabel at the reunion, I will be eager to hear what she remembers about our long-ago date, if anything. I read in a magazine recently that for twenty years she has been an editor (now the top editor) for the Harlequin series of romance books. Surely there is some kind of poetic lesson in that...

Author: By The CLASS Of, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: In Their Own Words | 6/5/2001 | See Source »

...into Isabel at the reunion, I will be eager to hear what she remembers about our long-ago date, if anything. I read in a magazine recently that for twenty years she has been an editor (now the top editor) for the Harlequin series of romance books. Surely there is some kind of poetic lesson in that...

Author: By John PAUL Newport, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: My Harvard Date | 6/5/2001 | See Source »

Because Chatwin knew everyone, and because most of them are still alive, Bruce Chatwin becomes at times a group portrait of an entire world--sophisticated, cutting and articulate--that cannot stop talking, fascinated, about the Cubist harlequin who ran on self-delight. "He was constantly gyrating on his own axis," his patient and devoted wife Elizabeth said, "to cause a sensation, to find a sensation." Another friend noted, "I have seldom met a human being who exudes so much sex appeal with so comparatively little niceness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Prodigal Nomad | 2/21/2000 | See Source »

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