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...what about the last line's "conflict" in the three locales? Hogue suggests that they refer to various disturbances around the time of Robert Kennedy's assassination in 1968. But, at a loss for a problem in Reims at that time, he simply concludes that "Reims is a synecdoche [part-for-the-whole] for France." Funny how that works, since London isn't used as a synecdoche for England and Tuscany is mentioned instead of Florence...

Author: By Eric M. Nelson, | Title: Taking Nostradamus at His Word | 11/17/1997 | See Source »

...report stated that both male and female students equally value a mentor's ability to refer them to other sources of information, but noted the impact of such mentoring varies along gender lines...

Author: By Molly Hennessy-fiske, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Radcliffe Mentorships Offer Guidance, Perspectives | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

...large presence as well. G. Love's collaborations with the latter band, marked by the insipid rapping of vocalists Katman and Smiles, are the least successful performances on the album. Irrelevant lyrics make things worse: the content of songs such as "Lay Down The Law" and "1-76" (which refer to a personal acquaintance and G. Love's hometown Philadelphia, respectively) will mean nothing to most listeners...

Author: By Abraham J. Wu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Defying Genre No Longer a Novelty for G. Love | 11/7/1997 | See Source »

...there was another structure Gehry wanted to refer to--the mother ship, as it were: Frank Lloyd Wright's original Guggenheim on Fifth Avenue, with its great empty center wound about by the spiral of exhibition ramp. Obviously that couldn't be repeated (it is, in any case, a curator's nightmare), but like the Bilbaino industrial metaphor, it could be evoked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARCHITECTURE: Getty Center and Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao: | 11/3/1997 | See Source »

Your cover story on Buddhism was a colossal disappointment. You treated the subject as just another cult, a Church of Scientology or a Heaven's Gate. Would you refer to the Pope as Sophia Loren's confessor or hold up Barbra Streisand as a shining example of Judaism? MURRAY SILVER JR. Atlanta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 3, 1997 | 11/3/1997 | See Source »

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