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Many upperclass students, as well as first-years, moved into their rooms on Friday. At top-left, Ming Yo Tsai '93 of Eliot House, brings a full-length mirror into the new DeWolfe St. dorm. At top-right, Lawrence E. Tanz '92, a senior, carries his sofa into Lowell House. At bottom-left, Vincent P. Fiorino '95 signs in, while Sean C. Casey '95 finds his room key to the Yard...
Marlon Brando's emergence in the early '50s registered a drastic change in the cultural weather. The masculine ideal reflected in the Hollywood mirror had been basically suave and gentlemanly. Brando, who grew up middle class, Midwestern and Wasp, radiated pure working-class alienation -- an inarticulate promise of danger, sex and social abrasion. Which is why, as TIME film critic Richard Schickel tells us in BRANDO: A LIFE IN OUR TIMES (Atheneum; $21.95), he was a mythic presence for all the young urban professionals of the '50s. Rude but sensitive, rough but anguished, Brando was their version of pastoral...
...past two decades the Yankees have been a fun-house mirror of American society -- from the early '70s, when a couple of players swapped wives, to the long, sad reign of boss George Steinbrenner, who was accused of bullying his rich, ornery employees...
...only 100,000 households use computer-banking services. Predicts a former customer, Katherine Dallam, 34, a small-business owner: "The future won't arrive for electronic banking until they find a way for you to make withdrawals and deposits from home." Other failures include ventures backed by Times Mirror, Chemical Banking and Time Inc. With their advantage in size and experience in selling over-the-phone services, the Baby Bells are convinced they will succeed where others have failed...
Such fretting may be premature. So far, the computerized data business has been filled with a lot less profit than promise, largely because of consumer indifference. The growing list of disappointed entries includes ventures backed by Knight-Ridder, Times Mirror and Chemical Banking. Despite their advantage in size and expertise, say analysts, the newly freed Baby Bells could join the list...