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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...second quarter, the Harvard offense looked as strong as it has all year. Drive after drive, Harvard took control of the ground--and occasionally the air--to rack up 21 points in the Crimson's most fluid and prolific stretch this season...

Author: By Jay K. Varma, | Title: Sophomore Quarterbacks Ahead of Their Time | 11/4/1991 | See Source »

Describing his work, Vavpetic says, "I can't believe I get paid for this job. I open the doors, sit down, pull a magazine off the rack and start reading...

Author: By Elie G. Kaunfer, | Title: Harvard's Cushy Jobs | 10/9/1991 | See Source »

...talk all you want about the near misses and the mental lapses. You can rack your brains trying to figure out what is wrong with this Harvard squad...

Author: By Peter I. Rosenthal, | Title: M. Booters at a Crossroads | 10/2/1991 | See Source »

Marcel Duchamp, the French Surrealist, labeled as "art" a battered bottle rack, a defaced poster of the Mona Lisa and a mass-produced urinal. He perceived art all around in the vernacular world. The question pondered in THE MYSTERIES, a multimedia enchantment at Harvard's American Repertory Theater, is whether vernacular life itself -- the life of mating, domestic squabbles and old age -- can constitute a sort of art. At times the idea is posed literally, as when writer-director David Gordon places an ornate frame around actors engaged in a mock wedding. At other times the "mysteries" of creation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Framed, but Is It Art? | 9/23/1991 | See Source »

...like many of my generation, I nurtured an image of the good life that was the polar opposite of how my parents spent their discretionary income in the 1950s. My taste was too elevated to tolerate frozen vegetables, supermarket ice cream, one-from-Column-A Chinese restaurants, off-the-rack clothing and clunky domestic automobiles. Yuck, how Middle American! My refined sensibilities required only the best: fresh asparagus, Ben & Jerry's ice cream, Sichuan and Hunan restaurants, ventless Italian suits. But I was never one of those yuppies; they drove BMWs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Birth and -- Maybe -- Death of Yuppiedom | 4/8/1991 | See Source »

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