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Just about the only spark of life is Poitier's flamboyant performance. Not that the spark is always warming. Though Poitier, 64, is still a magnetic screen presence, his precise diction, darting gestures and eccentric pauses have become so mannered that any resemblance to flesh-and-blood conversation seems merely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Go Slow, Mr. Marshall | 4/8/1991 | See Source »

The book-checkers that guard each exit of Harvard's libraries do not earn their keep. Each week, we flush thousands of dollars down the toilet paying a flock of well-mannered Cantabridgians to arch their necks at students passing by with their backpacks unzipped. It's as easy as...

Author: By Joshua W. Shenk, | Title: How I Ripped Off Lamont Library | 12/13/1990 | See Source »

He was not alone. The mild-mannered Restic cameas close as you'll ever see him come tospontaneous combustion.

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: It's Just a Game | 10/9/1990 | See Source »

At first glance, the proposed swap seemed merely a mutual convenience. The New England Aquarium in Boston would give the Naval Ocean Systems Center in San Diego an overly rambunctious 450-lb. male dolphin named Rainbow and in return get a mild-mannered female that is hard of hearing and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boston: Flipper Fans Stop a Swap | 9/24/1990 | See Source »

I blame the Association of American Medical Colleges. This group of sadists writes an 8-hour exam which they admit does not determine whether you will be a good doctor. Years of statistical evaluations have proven conclusively only one thing: that the MCAT transforms mild-mannered, happy-go-lucky students...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: A Bad Case of MCAT Syndrome | 4/24/1990 | See Source »

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