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...same manner, Piercy deals minimally with the complex web of anger and guilt, love and mistrust that a divorce must create for Daria's daughters. The reader feels cheated, suspecting that if she only gave it attention, this author could produce some memorable fiction. Instead, Robin is on Ross's side and Tracy on Daria's, and, Io and behold, it all works...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bye Bye Love | 7/13/1984 | See Source »

...Post, where Au thor Woodward heads up the investigative reporting staff, is drawing the kind of hoopla usually kindled by more conventional show-biz behemoths; an excerpt has also appeared in Playboy. Like some Hollywood superproduction, the book boasts a long list of cameo appearances by stars (Jack Nicholson, Robin Williams, Robert De Niro, Carrie Fisher and miscellaneous The Rolling Stones) whose presence has nothing of importance to contribute save what agents and producers like to call "name value...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Overdosing on Bad Dreams | 6/11/1984 | See Source »

...also named John H. F. Shattuckas his vice president for government, community and public affairs, replacing Robin V. Schmidt. Shattuck, who was director of the Washington office of the American Civil Liberties Union, has said he is interested in making his office more active, especially in defending academic freedom and trying to develop strategies for dealing with tax reform as it relates to universities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Names and faces in the spotlight | 6/7/1984 | See Source »

...Allan Poe and Lewis Carroll experimented with trick questions; in this century, J.R.R. Tolkien in The Hobbit offered a few original puzzles: "A box without hinges, key or lid. Yet golden treasure inside is hid." Answer: An egg. The sport trickled down to Gotham City, home of Batman and Robin; in a recent comic-book adventure, the Riddler leaves a clue to the locale of his next crime: "When is a horse most like a stamp collection?" Answer: When it's a hobby horse (a reference to Hobby Airport in Houston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Riddles Ancient and Modern: by Mark Bryant | 5/21/1984 | See Source »

...singles and doubles. Sixty-four singles players have been invited from all over the country, including Harvard's top two--junior Elizabeth Evans and freshman Kathy Vigna. And in doubles, two Harvard teams will compete in the field of 32: Vigna and sophomore Roberta Hing and Evans and freshman Robin Boss...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: It's Off to Nationals for Netwomen; USC is First Round Opponent Saturday | 5/9/1984 | See Source »

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