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...final months of the year (the century!, the millennium!) bring us Dava Sobel's Galileo's Daughter (Walker; 418 pages; $27) and Isabel Allende's Daughter of Fortune (HarperCollins; 432 pages; $26). Each in its way projects a feminist point of view. More strikingly, both are about revolutions, one scientific, the other cultural...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Footnotes No Longer | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

...spot account of the sad tryst of a girl and her stepfather--the "real" story behind Humbert's besotted ravings in a book titled Lolita. We are told that Dolores ("Lolita") Maze (not Haze) met Humbert Guibert (not Humbert) in the home of her mother Isabel (not Charlotte); that Humbert took a fancy to Lo; that he married the mother to get to the daughter; that on the mother's death, Hum and Lo took to the open road, fitfully pursued by the girl's true love, playwright Gerry Sue Filthy (not Clare Quilty), for whom she ultimately abandoned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Humming Along With Nabokov | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

...ascend for no other discernible reason than having shared the great one's bed is one Mrs. Peron of Argentina. Not Evita, who became a saint after her death but never actually ruled--no, the sorriest modern case of rule by consort is Peron's third wife, Isabel, a cabaret dancer he met during one of his exiles in Spain, who turned in one of the most disastrous presidencies in Argentine history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We Will Have a King over Us | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

...There might be some abuse, But I Think people will be reasonable," F. Isabel Smith '99 said...

Author: By Vicky C. Hallett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Free Condoms To Be Available In All Houses | 1/13/1999 | See Source »

...Isabel E. Beerman '00, co-chair of LeverettHouse Committee, spoke on behalf of the committee...

Author: By John P. Posch, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Leverett Extends Dining Hall Hours | 11/23/1998 | See Source »

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