Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when it opened in the U.S. For the past six weeks, it has been the No. 1 box-office attraction in the U.S. (over $62 million so far). Hogan, 46, who lives with his wife and three of their five children in a Sydney suburb, was an all-round master of no trade until he caught on in 1972 as a comedian on Australian TV. Previously best known to Americans as Australian tourism's charming shill ("G'day"), he wrote Dundee and put up money to help make it. So what's next? Offers are pouring in from everywhere...
However, he adds, "If man can learn to master his mind, anything is possible...
Mark Mack's tough, beautiful houses are rustic in more complicated, suggestive ways. The archetypes that inspire them are ancient but not quite classical, more primitive than Periclean. If Northern California had had an early civilization of master builders, one imagines, their settlements would have looked like this...
Brody was not always in such good shape. Her weight seesawed through high school in Brooklyn, N.Y., and the New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell, where she majored in biochemistry. But when she went for a master's degree in science writing at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and did a two-year stint at the Minneapolis Tribune, the move proved personally disastrous. "I wasn't used to Midwestern reticence," says the voluble Brody. "I felt very isolated and different. So I turned to food." Eventually she ballooned to 140 lbs., and there...
...skating show is run almost exclusively by Eliot House students. Approximately 100 students regularly work on the show, and more than half the house gets involved during the weekend of the performances. "It's been a wonderful integrating factor," says Eliot Associate Master Arline G. Heimert. "It really pulls the house together...