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...Omaha deaths raise an obvious question: Is suicide contagious? Recent clusters of adolescent suicides suggest that the answer is yes. In a twelve- month period beginning in February 1983, seven teenagers in Plano, Texas, committed suicide, four by carbon-monoxide poisoning, three by guns. Five boys in New York's Westchester and Putnam counties died by their own hand in February 1984, four of them by hanging. Within the past two weeks, one student at David Prouty High School in Spencer, Mass., committed suicide; at least two schoolmates, possibly four, tried to kill themselves and failed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Could Suicide Be Contagious? | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

...keep pins in the pincushion, have a pencil by the phone and arrange fresh flowers when you do not have time to dust. Those chores will not kill her, and following that advice should fit in with her law career. Long live Erma's revenge: laughter. Martha Weston Plano, Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 23, 1984 | 7/23/1984 | See Source »

Having switched his major to music, Flynn says he is doing an independent study of the plano with a teacher outside of Harvard. "Independent Study has made a tremendous difference in my workload," Flynn notes, adding that he practices three hours each...

Author: By Judith E. Bernstein, | Title: New Rules Restrict Independent Study | 5/5/1983 | See Source »

...this context, Feste, the punning, cynical clown becomes Frank Sinatra, leaning on the plano with a drink, entertaining the nobility but keeping his distance. James Goldstein as Orsino, the duke who pines for the love of Olivia (Gaye Williams), is a Casablanca Bogart, white dinner jacket and all. The allusion makes his slow transition to lovesick goon particularly hilarious when he takes to staring soulfully into space, smoking cigarettes from a gold case and obliviously blowing clouds of smoke into the face of Viola (Caroline Isenberg), who, from under her disguise as his servant, gazes just as wistfully...

Author: By --amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Shakespeare In Wonderland | 11/20/1981 | See Source »

...Plano Recital--Randall Hodgkinson, planist; music of Bach, Beethoven and Bartok; Peasant Stock Restaurant, 415 Washington St., Somerville...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oct. 15-21 | 10/15/1981 | See Source »

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