Word: manual
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sitting on a goldmine. By exposing all the intrigue, duplicity and sex of running Harvard University, Bok could guarantee himself a place on the bestsellers' list--and the lecture tour--for years to come. Acting Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky's The University: An Owner's Manual would pale in comparison to Bok's The University: Tower of Lust. Odds...
Still, you should listen up about Longtime Companion. For it is a splendidly bitchy comedy, The Women crossed with The Big Chill. Also a soap opera, a horror movie and a how-to manual on coping with catastrophe. On a small budget, writer Craig Lucas and director Norman Rene (who teamed just as productively on the Broadway comedy Prelude to a Kiss) have created a beguiling panorama. It spans the '80s, a decade that, for gay men and those who love them, took a fatal tailspin from high camp to tragedy. The film is a juggling act -- of characters, attitudes...
...fossil fuels, does not pollute the atmosphere and is a great form of exercise for this fitness-crazed era. But in the age of high tech, bicycles have long seemed old-fashioned, a classical conveyance stuck with a century-old design: two equal-size wheels, a welded steel frame, manual gear shifting, pedals and a chain. While cars have loaded up with electronic gadgetry, bicycles have watched the wheels of progress roll...
Since Rosovsky left the deanship, he authored called The University: An Owner's Manual, in which he reflects on the state of higher education and spells out some of the strategies he discovered were the key to being a successful administrator...
...other hand, no one has yet proved that Noriega was the coke-sniffing degenerate portrayed by U.S. officials during the invasion. And there are allegations that both the picture of Hitler and the sex manual discovered in his house and office were planted...