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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Particularly prominent from the restaurant are MIT and Fenway Park. It makes a great dinner spot before a formal, especially if you're feeling romantic. And if you're not willing to fork over the big bucks for dinner, the Prudential also features a nearly 360-degree observation tower. They...

Author: By Elizabeth T. Bangs, | Title: What to Do at Harvard Until the Year 2000 | 9/9/1996 | See Source »

Why are such social sanctions necessary? Scholars who specialize in human nature--evolutionary psychologists--have an answer: our species is not monogamous by nature. Neither sex is designed for a lifetime of monogamous devotion, especially men; during human evolution, males, unlike females, could greatly multiply their progeny by having multiple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONVENTION '96: THE FALSE POLITICS OF VALUES | 9/9/1996 | See Source »

Each sketch pivots on a chance meeting that leads to romantic betrayal. In the first episode, a young woman hears that her beau is seeing other women; she decides to trump his perfidy only to find herself caught in an elaborate farce. In the third, a painter ditches his date...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: PARIS MATCHES | 9/9/1996 | See Source »

It is mainly the image of Liszt as music's first international superstar, and one of the Romantic Century's great Don Juans, that remains fixed in our collective memory: a slim, strikingly handsome six-footer with a flowing mane of shoulder-length hair, a piano conjurer able to summon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: THE BOOK OF LISZTS | 9/2/1996 | See Source »

A young man writes a virtuoso novel, and the reader, hearing this news, imagines what it might be: a blare of grand attitudes and romantic bosh perhaps, or a bravura display of cynicism not quite fully baked or fully earned. But the mood of Erik Fosnes Hansen's remarkable Psalm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: THE ICEBERG WINS AGAIN | 8/26/1996 | See Source »

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