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...kind of half-breeds. We speak Arabic, but not as well as if we had grown up there," he says. "I don't mind feeling Arab--it's an important heritage. I think it's nice to have some part of your background be different from the norm...

Author: By Rebecca M. Wand, | Title: Facing Down Stereotypes | 3/22/1993 | See Source »

...young beauty enjoyed making The Crying Game, but has no plans to cash in on his starburst. "The more away from the norm you are," he notes, "the fewer parts there are. So I can't see myself being offered many parts. And I don't see many worth doing. It's not that I don't want to act a'tall. It's that I only want to do things I like and that I've got the specs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't Read This Story! | 3/1/1993 | See Source »

...Dating has not always been an accepted norm. Our "memories" of the past are of a romantic period in which dating took on a greater social importance. My mother remarks that, when she attended Penn in the mid-1960s, she had dates with three people in a single day. (My mother happened to be an unabashed flirt...

Author: By Adam D. Taxin, | Title: Whining and Dining Your Date | 2/20/1993 | See Source »

Thomson Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. said Buell's letter is the first "call to change the norm" he has received...

Author: By Judith E. Dutton, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Buell Letter Warns Of Grade Inflation | 1/15/1993 | See Source »

...first four tracks are drawn from The Teardrop Explodes' debut LP, Kilimanjaro (1980). Standouts include the dementedly jazzy hit single "Reward" (which rhymes "queues" with "Howard Hughes") and the shiny creepy "Sleeping Gas." Dissonant guitar and horn solos over driving, repetitive rhythm sections are the norm here, but this stuff is too much fun to feel avant-garde...

Author: By Jordan Ellenberg, | Title: New Music | 11/5/1992 | See Source »

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