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...book to just a few teams in college basketball, he has problems when it comes to presenting other characters. Great, the reader knows about Steve Kerr, but when other great players like Notre Dame's David Rivers and Temple's Mark Macon are mentioned, Feinstein devotes only a paragraph or two to them...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: A Season Inside | 12/10/1988 | See Source »

...Math Department hallway abounds with concert flyers and music schedules tacked on doorways and bulletin boards. One office door bears a typewritten paragraph taken from an obscure 1924 article entitled "Mathematics and Music...

Author: By Alison D. Morantz, | Title: Music + Math: A Common Equation? | 11/30/1988 | See Source »

...debate's intellectual challenge could be as easily supplied by any reporter with a tough question, and it should be, every day. Few things this year upset me more than when newspapers gave their campaign coverage to TV or entertainment critics, who reviewed the performances of presidential nominees a paragraph above those of ABC sitcom actors. The saddest thing of all is that these entertainment reviews were more insightful than the political commentary...

Author: By Charles N. W. keckler, | Title: Through a Looking Glass | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

...choice to make is which gender edition you would like to read. Knopf has published two versions: male and female. The difference between the editions is not great--only 17 lines (and I promise not to reveal which 17)--but, as the cover and title page warn, this one paragraph is crucially different...

Author: By W. CALEB Crain, | Title: A Novel Dictionary | 11/12/1988 | See Source »

MEANWHILE the reader is still hunting for those 17 differing lines. Every mention of male and female complements leaps off the page, because maybe, the reader hopes, he has found the crucial paragraph. And Pavic provides many such mentions, because he is fascinated by the idea that every text has a male and female half. Always a text is incomplete without at least two ways of reading it. Perhaps more than two because according to one source Khazar nouns had seven genders...

Author: By W. CALEB Crain, | Title: A Novel Dictionary | 11/12/1988 | See Source »

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