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...culture, anyhow. In Ira Levin's 1976 book The Boys from Brazil a zealous ex-Nazi bred a generation of literal Hitler Youth--boys cloned from cells left behind by the Fuhrer. Woody Allen dealt with a similar premise a lot more playfully in his 1973 film Sleeper, in which a futuristic tyrant is killed by a bomb blast, leaving nothing behind but his nose--a nose that his followers hope to clone into a new leader. Even as the fiction of one decade becomes the technology of another, it's inevitable that this technology will be used--often...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WILL WE FOLLOW THE SHEEP? | 3/10/1997 | See Source »

This comment delighted the overflowing crowd in Jacob Sleeper Hall. The audience came to hear the two scholars discuss their new book, The Cold War and the Universities: Towards an Intellectual History of the Cold War, which examines literature about the Cold...

Author: By Martin G. Hickey, | Title: Chomsky, Zinn Discuss Their New Book | 2/21/1997 | See Source »

...should be mentioned that producer John Cearley and his directors daringly chose to tackle an obscure and risky sleeper of an opera in "Hoffmann"--foregoing the insurance of a familiar crowd-pleaser like "The Marriage of Figaro" or "La Boheme." Although Offenbach was referred to as the "Mozart of the Champs-Elysees" earlier in his career, "The Tales of Hoffmann" was his first real opera, departing from his jokier opera-bouffe compositions of the past...

Author: By Elisabetta A. Coletti, | Title: Dunster House Opera Spins Rousing 'Tales' | 2/20/1997 | See Source »

After barely sneaking by the Ivy league sleeper, Columbia, 70-62, on Friday night, the Crimson rebounded with an impressive 85-62 trouncing of Cornell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: W. Basketball Trounces Big Red, 85-62 | 1/15/1997 | See Source »

Sanders Theater: I understand that this room was not designed with the sleeper in mind. However, there are opportunities, subtle as they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: How to Sleep in Class | 10/12/1996 | See Source »

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