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...ordered choice: A statistical labyrinth designed to make Harvard students confused about their housing assignments. See also: Quad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Advice to Pre-Frosh From Gopher, Guhan . . . . . . Guides and Geeks-- Come Aboard ! | 4/19/1990 | See Source »

Leila is fond of exalted similes. "My heart blazes like Shelley's on that beach" (her boyfriend is back); "I wander in like Theseus into the Labyrinth" (she's in the wine cellar); "We lie together, Pan and Ceres, the god of the woods and the goddess of grain" (afterglow). Half the novel is about her ill-fated passion; the rest is her resume. Leila did the '60s ("I produced happenings with Yoko Ono") and civil rights ("Mississippi with Goodman, Schwerner and Chaney"). She sounds a little like the pathological liar on Saturday Night Live: Yeah, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Too Blue | 2/5/1990 | See Source »

Strong material, then; and Rezzori follows this family labyrinth back with a fine disdain for sentiment, a transparency of feeling, an acid sense of humor and a vigilant eye for nuances of love and indifference, language, landscape and class behavior. It is not a young man's (or a moralist's) book. But it is intensely moving and contains, in its winding and ironic cadences, not a slack sentence: a performance in a difficult key about the making of a near extinct kind of European...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fall Into Chaos | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

...fires sputter down. By then 514 city blocks (4.1 sq. mi.) had gone, 28,188 buildings, including the homes of 250,000. Libraries, theaters, restaurants, courts, jails, the financial district, South of Market, the fabulous Palace -- all gone. North of Market, little remained of Chinatown but a labyrinth of underground chambers once home to brothels and opium dens. About 2,500 had died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: First The Shaking, Then the Flames | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

...screened porch. On the biological level, the world is a seamless continuum of energy and information passing back and forth, a vast complicated network of exchange. Speech, food, posture, infection, respiration, scent are but a few pathways of communication. Most of those circuits are still a mystery, a labyrinth we have barely begun to acknowledge or explore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Fear in A Handful of Numbers | 10/9/1989 | See Source »

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