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...weekend of concerts and mid-night movies on the main green to help everyone relax before exams," says Uyen K. Le, a Brown junior...
...books: business novels. A new spate -- with titles like The Quadrant Solution and Flying Fox -- dispense the usual wooden phrasing and boring platitudes with, occasionally, a clunky hint of sex. Quadrant offers a numbing exchange about business expansion, interrupted by a long kiss. From the steamy dialogue in Fox: "Relax," she said. "Have another glass of water." Puh-leeze...
Artful equivocations are even worse; Iynx-eyed sly little rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to exam 40. Then our Iynx eyes droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.'s are vicious or ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. "The 20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud." (V.G.); "But whether or not this is a good thing or a bad thing is difficult to say." (A.E.) Now one such might...
...people in the past have had a bad experience with hairdressers, so they tend to be protective of their hair," Dale says. The thing to do, he says, is to communicate, to relax, to trust--in short, to let our hair down...
...local cafe to pass the time. Moreover, alcohol consumption has dropped a third in the past decade, and cheaper supermarket prices encourage people to do their tippling at home. Another sign of the times: le cocooning, the preference of a stressed-out generation to stay home to relax. "People used to come and tell us their little problems," says Pierre Domingue, owner of the Cafe de l'Arrivee on the Boulevard de l'Hopital. "But those glory days are over...