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...fresh out of the high school oven. All of you are intelligent, qualified and talented. Emotionally, however, you can be in one of two places. Some of you say, "Hey, I was valedictorian. I was captain of the basketball team. I was president of the student council. Boy, should I be here." The other group says: "I know I was valedictorian. I know I was star of the tennis team. I know I was the head of the school paper--but so was everybody else in my class. What am I doing here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Evolution of Sections | 10/3/1996 | See Source »

...their decadent lifestyle. It is here that Tom's character is at last developed. The extremity of his ambitions and envy is demonstrated by his tigerlike eating--at times of tension he is seen devouring a peach in three angry bites, gnashing down a blazing chicken straight from the oven with his bare hands, slicing and gulping down long meaty lengths of sausage. All the while his sculpted good looks, strong cheekbones and short, rumpled hair bring an unnerving purity to his appearance no matter how viscious his crimes. The audience immediately sides with Delon's Tom because though...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Of Quasi-Americans Abroad | 7/9/1996 | See Source »

...bring the subject matter down to the audience, she is bringing the audience up to the subject matter, making it worthy of the effort it requires. Sure it's easier to identify with Gloria Steinem, who admits she once lived in an apartment for four years before realizing the oven didn't work. By making the impossible purchasable--at least in magazine and catalog form--Stewart is now simply Martha: cooking, sewing, gilding, planting, wallpapering and painting her way into every corner of your house--and your life. And Christmas? You'd better watch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME 25: THEY RANGE IN AGE FROM 31 TO 67 | 6/17/1996 | See Source »

...killers. Ghosting through both densely detailed narratives is a group of legless Quebec separatists tasked with stealing Infinite Jest. They want to use its deadly amusing powers as a weapon. Filmmaker James Incandenza, was so entertained that he committed suicide by sticking his head in a hot-wired microwave oven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MAD MAXIMALISM | 2/19/1996 | See Source »

...Foods and Nutrition I (the best class I took in high school), so I cut a few corners. Yeast, for example. How important could that be in the grand scheme of bread? So I forgot to take the plastic covering off of the ham and didn't preheat the oven, but what are details when it comes to love...

Author: By Andrew A. Green, | Title: A Sonnet in Vain | 2/14/1996 | See Source »

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