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The sly, sliding sets enhance a pleasing sense of a world turned slippery at the edges, and certainly much has slipped away geopolitically since the play premiered in London six years ago. Although Stoppard has modified the text slightly to presage the downfall of the Soviet Union, his characters continue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: Every Atom Is a Cathedral | 12/19/1994 | See Source »

"It is easy to use, it is easy to put together, it's a tree way to distribute information in an eye-pleasing fashion," Kim says. "It covers up the complexity of the Internet and allows people to view anything from formatted text to graphics to sound and even animation...

Author: By Eugene Koh and Douglas M. Pravda, S | Title: Exploring the World Wide Web | 12/6/1994 | See Source »

Worried White House operatives are cranking out executive policy options that, they hope, would allow President Clinton to stay a nimble step ahead of Speaker-presumptive NEWT GINGRICH's government-trimming, voter-pleasing butcher's knife. Proposed initiatives -- none of which the President has yet agreed to -- include merging the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Do: Lunch w/ Gore, Nap, Abolish Commerce | 11/28/1994 | See Source »

"A part of the profile of someone with an eating disorder very much matches part of the profile of the sort of person Harvard values: high-achieving, perfectionist, people-pleasing, and driven," says Sheila M. Reindel '80-'81, a counselor at the Bureau of Study Counsel.

Author: By Rebecca M. Wand, | Title: At Harvard, Eating Disorders Common | 11/4/1994 | See Source »

Popular theory alleges that pastels are physically soothing and pleasing to the eye. At least their color and tonal properties offer no offense, unless one calls gentility and utopianism an offense to sensibility. Impressionism might be attacked with this double-edged critique, which encapsulates both polarized personal responses; sentimental whimsy...

Author: By Thomas Madsen, | Title: Yankee Impressed | 11/3/1994 | See Source »

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