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...unexpected marriage to one of the guests, a rich but supernally dull stock trader: "I read some time ago that they're building robots that think. If such robots are built they'll be just like Boris." Next comes the surprising turn in which Boris introduces his handsome young nephew into their lives, obviously engineering his wife's adultery. It works, and that is followed by her leap out of a window and failed suicide. What does she make of all this? "I came to tell you," she informs her host, "only one thing: that of all the hopes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Din of Demanding Voices | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

...Your grandmother is going to want a framed picture of this one," Mavens Kosher Court President Mark Weiss said as his nephew, Keith Weiss, stepped into the Charles yesterday...

Author: By Chris Thorne, | Title: Mavens Consecrates Pots, Pans In Kosher Washing on Charles | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

...wouldn't be caught dead going to one of their movies." The whole kingdom fell into such deep gloom that ruthless Corporate Raiders attacked the magic realm, aiming to sell off its treasures and keep Cinderella's Castle as their trophy. But a man named Roy, noble nephew of the late Uncle Walt, sought help from the one person in whom everyone could believe: Prince Michael the Creative. When Michael arrived, there was rejoicing along Mickey Avenue and Dopey Drive. The happy sounds even attracted a wealthy white knight named Sid the Bold. "Michael puts a smile on my face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do You Believe In Magic? | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

...museum in honor of Walt," says Roy, now 58. "Movies were the fountainhead of ideas, the impetus for all the rest. Without Fantasia and Snow White, Disneyland couldn't have been built." Yet Disney's management rejected Roy's advice and privately disparaged him as Walt's "idiot nephew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do You Believe In Magic? | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

March 1, 1988: Rep. Barney Frank '62 (D-Mass.) writes a letter endorsing HUCTW and criticizing the antiunion campaigning of the University. Sen Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) and his nephew Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy II (D-Mass.) also say they support the union's efforts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Chronology of Union Activity | 3/15/1988 | See Source »

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