Word: michaell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hope that the question could be avoided was dispelled last week when Michael Kinsley, editor of the New Republic, resigned because Editor in Chief Martin Peretz killed an article about Kennedy's alleged womanizing. Said Kinsley: "My impression is that it was not the substance of the piece that bothered Marty, but the concept of discussing people's personal lives in the New Republic. " Peretz curtly offered that it was not "the right kind of piece...
...film is not entirely cliché-free. The character played by Mason is a fairly standard woman-doctor stereotype: pretty but prim, with deep-frozen attitudes toward men and a sharp tongue, at first, for the handsome radiologist (Michael Brandon) who wants to cuddle. Oddly, it is the teen-age romance that escapes stereotype: the scenes between Buffy and her boyfriend (Paul Clemens) are remarkably real and touching. In balance, the film is decent and compassionate, and truthful enough not to disguise too much the fact that truth can hurt terribly. -John Skow
NONFICTION: African Calliope, Edward Hoagland Charmed Lives, Michael Korda Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich, as related to and edited by Solomon Volkov The Duke of Deception, Geoffrey Wolff The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe The White Album, Joan Didion Zebra, Clark Howard
...Michael Anania's sets are worthy of special notice. He has knitted together stray ends of words and ideas into a tapestry of visual suggestion. Amid the dusty books and knick knacks in George's study sits a small globe--the kind found in grade school classrooms. Implied in this image is the insignificance of the world outside; the world of action and geography has faded into George's own world of private conflicts and uncertain intellectualism...
...Grading is ridiculous," Michael Oppenheimer, lecturer on Astronomy, told about 20 people at a panel discussion yesterday. Comments on student work are more useful because the "only way to help students is to put in as much work yourself as you demand; keep the alienating element out," he added...