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...word-processing instructor, I was disturbed by your use of the word magic on the cover. The great problem I have found is that adults are afraid of computers because they believe the machines are magical and not within their control. This fear inhibits these people and prevents them from developing the skills that are necessary for survival in our society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 7, 1984 | 5/7/1984 | See Source »

Though the film does arouse occasional suspense, little is left to the viewer's imagination. Betty (Winger) and Mike (Mark Keyloun), two ex-lovers, attempt to rekindle a romance that blossomed while Mike was Betty's tennis instructor. Meanwhile, Mike and his friend Pete (Darreli Larson) while away the hours getting stoned, causing trouble, and ultimately in Mike's case, losing his life. An outraged bewildered Betty decides to find out who was responsible, and as she does, slowly puts together the tragic pieces of Mike's life...

Author: By David H. Pollock, | Title: Winging It | 5/4/1984 | See Source »

...gratuitous actions without motivation. Why Mike chooses, for example, to play white slave to a decadent Black homosexual remains a mystery, as does most of his entire background. Similarly, though we know through rather maudlin and visibly contrived snippets on the tennis courts that Mike is Betty's former instructor, we never learn what, other than physical attraction, bonds them together...

Author: By David H. Pollock, | Title: Winging It | 5/4/1984 | See Source »

...trial lawyer would miss classes, and I don't miss classes," he said, adding that in his 20 years as an instructor he had not cancelled a lecture...

Author: By Lawrence J. Davis, | Title: Dershowitz Modifies Role In Von Bulow Defense | 5/3/1984 | See Source »

...create a sense of community--to alleviate the loneliness and isolation which seemed so prevalent to me and other tutors. So many students want personal contact with at least one teacher and seldom get it at a research-oriented university like Harvard, save, perhaps, from their tutor. The instructor who teaches a course in the fashion often pays a price. There are countless requests for recommendations One follows, and frequently is asked advice from, students at major turning points all through their lives--in graduate school or law school, at the time of securing a first job of making...

Author: By Maurice DEG. Ford, | Title: Harvard as Wasteland | 5/3/1984 | See Source »

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