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...format of the hour-long debate containedtwo parts. In the first half-hour, eight randomlychosen citizens asked questions via videotape andthe candidates were given a minute to respond. Afive-member panel of reporters then askedfollow-up questions...

Author: By Michael E. Thakur, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Candidates Square Off In Debate | 10/6/1998 | See Source »

...mass level. Through my lab work combining vegetables with a frozen dairy subtitute, I have created Veggie-Yo, a vegetarian dessert option for the lactose-intolerant that had a successful trial run in the Harvard dining halls. My theory on the convergence of the sitcom and the hour-long drama--scorned when published in a Harvard Magazine--has led to such hits as "Ally McBeal". Critics for The Harvard Crimson have praised my acting work, particularly in the role of DJ Banquo in "Thane of New York: An Urban Macbeth". And my 1996 Commencement toilet paper installation in Harvard Yard...

Author: By Marshall I. Lewy, | Title: Who Needs Repentance? | 10/2/1998 | See Source »

Some families travel well. Not mine. When Zoe and Ella aren't behaving like Curly and Moe in the back seat--finger jabs, nose tweaks and attempted first-degree wedgies--baby Clementine is performing one of her eerie, hour-long imitations of the Emergency Broadcast System. That's why I decided to use the Web to help me navigate during my recent summer vacation. I figured that the more I knew about the route I'd be driving--how many miles to the destination, how far between rest stops, even how to get there in the first place--the better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Free Maps Online | 8/17/1998 | See Source »

...turned his back on the commercial theater to devote himself solely to George Balanchine's New York City Ballet, for which he made a string of masterpieces--among them The Cage, Afternoon of a Faun, The Goldberg Variations and, above all, Dances at a Gathering, an hour-long garland of sometimes sentimental, sometimes intensely romantic dances set to music of Chopin--that secured his standing as America's first great native-born ballet choreographer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Made in The U.S.A. Genius: Jerome Robbins, master choreographer | 8/10/1998 | See Source »

...shows--was classic Seinfeld: gently humorous observations. Then comedy leapfrog. A few comments about death segued into a bit on how the closest equivalent we have to royalty in America is the people who get to ride in electric carts at the airport. By the time the nearly hour-long set ended abruptly with an orgasm gag, he had covered such disparate subjects as answering machines, the irrational fear of rain, annoying hairs in the shower and of course dating ("a job interview that lasts all night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: As for the Old Master... | 8/10/1998 | See Source »

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