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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Worst of all, Mary Q.'s family knows how styrofoam those personalities are, but it clings to its dreams, writing its favorite stars letters and reading gossipy fan magazines. In the method of check-out counter journalism, a star having dinner with anyone translates into an affair, and jaded, empty personalities are promoted into "great stars." Everyone knows what the beautiful people really are, but who would have thought that beautiful people would make a serious, but inevitably shallow film about beautiful, shallow people...

Author: By Mike Kendall, | Title: A Reviewer is Bored | 3/29/1977 | See Source »

Torpid Tropics. That Grace is an anthropologist and trained observer is of great importance. Any other method of narration might have turned the novel into a pastiche of psychological and social pathology. To begin with, there is Charlotte's education as a norteamericana: "She was immaculate of history, innocent of politics. There were startling vacuums in her store of common knowledge. During the two years she spent at Berkeley before she ran away to New York with an untenured instructor named Warren Bogart, she had read mainly the Brontës and Vogue, bought a loom, gone home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Imagination of Disaster | 3/28/1977 | See Source »

This safe and painless method delineates the brain by feeding X-ray results into a computer, New added...

Author: By Kathleen E. Mcdonough, | Title: Harvard Marijuana Research Challenges British Conclusions | 3/23/1977 | See Source »

Epps said the method companies use to obtain students' names, which he refused to describe, is "usually unethical...

Author: By Cynthia A. Torres, | Title: Seniors Charge Aetna Agents With Deceptive Sales Tactics | 3/19/1977 | See Source »

What's an original musical comedy that mocks everything from the socratic method to pick-ups in the library, that's a real Harvard tradition and that isn't just a lower class Pudding show? The Law School show, of course. With a plot that promises to be as thoroughly indescribable as everything we've come to expect from over there, it's hard to say anything about Holmes is Where the Hark Is, except that even if you don't get two-thirds of the jokes you probably should still go. The other third may be worth it. Performances...

Author: By Diane Sherlock, | Title: STAGE | 3/17/1977 | See Source »

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