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...anxiety--or most of it--will end in less than three weeks, when freshmen wake up to a computer printout on their doorstep. If the lottery goes as in years past, nearly 70 percent will be wearing smiles to break fast as they ponder life for the next years in their first-choice House

Author: By Ristin A. Goss, | Title: House Reputations Influence Choices Of Freshmen Gearing Up for Lottery | 3/2/1985 | See Source »

Harvard was left in second and also left alone to ponder about its only Ivy loss of the season, a four-point squeaker to Princeton. which, as it turns out, was the deciding match of the season...

Author: By Chris Georges, | Title: Fluke Pin Spoils Grapplers' Title Hopes | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

...fond of isms as they are of pate and Beaujolais, have been served up a succulent new buzz word by a conservative American President. In government offices and lycee classrooms, Reaganisme has become the touchstone of current discourse. Politicians, especially in the conservative opposition, measure themselves against it. Pundits ponder to what extent it might, or might not, be exportable to France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France the New Refrain: Vive L'Amerique | 1/14/1985 | See Source »

Nevertheless, the play provides some sobering thoughts about the era of Big Brother, and if nothing else, offers a brief opportunity to ponder the meaning of existence and mortality...

Author: By David H. Pollock, | Title: Mid-Life Crisis | 10/30/1984 | See Source »

...gliding camera announces its presence quietly but surely, like a cat on a carpet. His point here seems to be that voyeurism can induce a trancelike emotional paralysis-a message feminists could appreciate if Body Double took less pleasure in the mechanics of mutilation, and that ordinary moviegoers could ponder if the characters' motivations were not so numbingly nitwit. Upscale sleaze-so what else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dark Nights for the Libido | 10/29/1984 | See Source »

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