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...success is that no one has ever fallen asleep in one of his lectures, Fleming says, or at least, he adds, he hasn't noticed the dozing students. But he does try to observe the expressions of students during lectures to see how material is being received. "Every instructor has people chosen intuitively throughout the lecture hall to read their faces...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: Credit for Fun | 9/18/1985 | See Source »

...success is that no one has ever fallen asleep in one of his lectures, Fleming says, or at least, he adds, he hasn't noticed the dozing students. But he does try to observe the expressions of students during lectures to see how material is being received. "Every instructor has people chosen intuitively throughout the lecture hall to read their faces...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: Credit for Fun | 9/12/1985 | See Source »

...success is that no one has ever fallen asleep in one of his lectures, Fleming says, or at least, he adds, he hasn't noticed the dozing students. But he does try to observe the expressions of students during lectures to see how material is being received. "Every instructor has people chosen intuitively throughout the lecture hall to read their faces...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: Credit for Fun | 9/9/1985 | See Source »

...mock international spy story. An American agency known as "the Firm," which may or may not be the CIA, wants to know if it should throw its support to the Sebastiani Liberation Front. To find out, it recruits none other than Russel Wren, a onetime college English instructor, would-be playwright and sometime private investigator, as well as the protagonist of Berger's 1977 Who Is Teddy Villanova? Wren's invincible innocence would seem a poor recommendation for the job. But as his recruiter points out, "Obviously if you've survived in New York City you know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dicey Clams Nowhere by Thomas Berge | 6/17/1985 | See Source »

...being. One is the force principle. The other is the beauty principle." Men had muscles. Women were soft, or at least they were very differently muscled. Bushnell's distinction survives, more or less, in a new movie called Perfect. The actress Jamie Lee Curtis plays a sleekly made aerobics instructor described by the movie's title. It is in another movie, Pumping Iron II: The Women, that Bushnell is definitively put in his place. In this semidocumentary about women body builders, one sees hormonal prodigies. The women are formidably developed. Their bikini bras look like preposterous Band-Aids attached...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Body Beautiful: Pumping Ironies | 6/17/1985 | See Source »

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