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Now in its second season, Family Matters, which centers on a black policeman and his Chicago family, has been moving steadily up the Nielsen chart, often cracking the Top 10. There it usually joins Miller-Boyett's reigning champ, the four-year-old Full House, in which three unattached males...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Revenge of The Nerd | 4/1/1991 | See Source »

Changing attrition rates, however, disguise the central problem of undergraduate housing at Harvard: the University's attitude that crowding a houseful of sophomores and juniors is a price worth paying to ensure that there are never any empty rooms. Forcing a year or two of overcrowding onto a house or...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crowded Again | 9/29/1986 | See Source »

That is not how forgiveness operates. Once in the middle of the war, Simon Wiesenthal, a prisoner in a forced-labor camp in Lvov, found himself on a work detail in a hospital where a young SS officer lay wounded and dying. The Nazi made Wiesenthal sit and listen while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Forgiveness to the Injured Doth Belong | 5/20/1985 | See Source »

Rorem's new oratorio, based on texts by Poe, Longfellow, Twain, Crane, Melville, Whitman, Emma Lazarus and Sidney Lanier, is one of four premieres this season for the prolific composer, and it too treads familiar ground. Best known for his art songs and his candid, elegantly written diaries recounting his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Where the New Action Is | 2/4/1985 | See Source »

* A houseful of poltergeists that zip out of a television set and swallow up a four-year-old girl. The only person who can call her back is her mother, by thinking hard about how much she loves her daughter;

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: J.C., Phone Home | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

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