Word: moguls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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REMEMBER IN FIFTH GRADE how you were taught to respect and revere the president, the Congress and the Supreme Court? Well, Laurence H. Tribe '62, Law School professor and Supreme Court mogul, hasn't forgotten those lessons...
...fact, two freshmen, Glen McDonald and Henry Riggs, were so upset that they went to the top. No, they didn't ask evolution mogul Steven Jay Gould to resurrect the great beast. They asked President Derek C. Bok to divest of Harvard's stock in companies that contributed to the decline and fall of the prehistoric animal...
...bait to fishermen, and the force behind it is a supersalesman from Des Moines who found God in a federal penitentiary. The machine is called Vend-A-Bait, and, as one Texas distributor put it, "It's one great moneymakin' sucker." So, for that matter, is Vend-A-Bait Mogul Glenn McClintic; he drives a car longer than most people's memory...
...that Susan whines out against the desperation. It's not tract, but satire, asking that most forbidden of questions: Can anything come between the suburban housewife and her Calvins? Will the quiet wife of a New Jersey hot tub mogul seek excitement in a Susan universe so desperate that it allows for wet armpits? To paraphrase Aristotle, all the pipes in the world can't buy excitement...
...impressive and the most frustrating event is the 300-piece exhibit "India!" at New York City's Metropolitan Museum. For visitors unfamiliar with Indian art, the riches and their antiquity are beguiling. The collection is most complete in painting, reflecting Exhibition Curator Stuart Cary Welch's scholarly specialization in Mogul miniatures. They range from court assemblies to bloody scenes of hunting, from frolicsome glimpses of improbably colored animals and gods to sober, documentary official portraits. Among the more memorable: a kittenish lion sensually rolling his back paws in apparent pursuit of his swishing tail; a stampede of combative horses, whose...