Word: karens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bring a high school relationship. You'll only rack up hefty phone bills. Plus, you might as well start exploring the strange world of Harvard relationships as soon as you arrive. If you wait until February of your first year to break up with Karen or Hank, you'll be overwhelmed when you finally venture out into the Yard social scene. Harvard's dating pool is inundated with bitter, post-reading-period dumpees on the rebound and dumpers "not yet ready for a relationship...
...ambivalence Marten feels about the controversial treatment is echoed by the other illustrators -- Anita Kunz, Roz Chast, Karen Barbour, Polly Becker and Sandra Dionisi -- whom associate art directors Sharon Okamoto and Janet Parker commissioned to interpret the topic for Time. "I think a lot about aging," says Kunz, 38. "It's such a youth-oriented culture." Chast, 40, who submitted the tongue-in-cheek cartoon titled The Picture of Doreen Gray, says the idea of an antiaging pill "gives me the creeps" but concedes that she may feel differently in 10 years...
...Reported by Bernard Baumohl/New York, William McWhirter/Detroit, Suneel Ratan and Karen Tumulty/Washington
Carol is "allergic to the 20th century," and Safe tells of her attempts to understand and conquer her condition at Wrenwood, a "chemical-free zone" in New Mexico. Writer-director Todd Haynes, who made the importantly weird short film Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story and Poison, a minimalist epic of sex and longing in the age of aids, again has decay and estrangement in mind. This scarily confident, beautifully acted study is gnomic and anomic, like a TV disease movie made in an alternate universe. And in Moore's pretty, aggrieved face, Haynes finds the ideal vessel for his concerns...
...needs for confirmation, but the nomination is foundering under a scenario thatMajority Leader Bob Doleset in motion Tuesday. Dole, taking advantage of a filibuster threat byGOP presidential rival Phil Gramm, scheduled a vote to end debate on Foster after three hours today. "It's brilliant," says TIME's Karen Tumulty. "He's won on both counts: it looks like he was fair in bringing this to a vote, and he's engineered it so there's no chance Foster can succeed." Knowing the doctor would likely fall short, Dole is allowing supporters a scant 24 hours to regroup before...