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...recent Forum weekend in a nondescript room on Manhattan's East Side, 52 men and 47 women gathered for a variety of reasons. The meek sought a voice; the proud, humbling; the lonely, companionship. All had signed a form stating that they are mentally and physically well. It is important that attendees be healthy. The Forum, which costs $350, still requires endurance. It consists of three 12- to 16-hour days--with time out for meals--and (after a one-day breather) a one-evening wrap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Of Est? | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

About three weeks ago, I spent a weekend at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel for the annual Harvard Model United Nations conference. On Saturday night, I was very tired and decided to head back to my room at Harvard. I got into a nondescript cab in front of the hotel. The cab driver charged me 50 cents for putting my bags in the trunk...

Author: By Erika R. Janes, | Title: Next Time, Just Take the T | 3/4/1998 | See Source »

...Rating: [One Khomeini] You'd think the network that brought you the Gulf War could do better. Investigating is too mild a verb; it suggests a medical checkup. The gray border is monochromatic and nondescript, like something stamped on an official document or government-approved meat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Feb. 2, 1998 | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

...perhaps, the most diverting destination serviced by the MBTA. Many of the most prominent signs in town announce the distance to Lexington, and at midday the busiest stretch of the sleepy streets is the outbound to Boston commuter rail station. But just steps from the train stop, in a nondescript office building overlooking the deserted Waltham common, pulses the heartbeat of one of Boston's most exciting cultural events...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Murphy, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Finally, a Festival Worth Seeing | 11/14/1997 | See Source »

...results may well go down in musical history as the first as-told-to symphony, though McCartney's associates loyally insist that the final product is all Paul. If so, it's a vanity production. Standing Stone's themes are nondescript, its harmonies blandly predictable, its structure maddeningly repetitious, and its scoring bloated and slick, with bits and pieces of popular classical works occasionally bobbing to the surface (Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe and Orff's Carmina Burana both make cameo appearances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: HELP! HE'S NOT DOING FINE | 11/3/1997 | See Source »

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