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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...humiliating scene.Everyone else gets irritated with his stoicism aswell, and Maxim is put in the ludicrous positionof having to punch his rival for not sleeping withhis lover. The most significant subplot involvesthe physical decline of one of Camille's agingformer teachers, who tellingly describes the youngCamille as "a smooth, hard little girl" withunderlying passions. Stephane's eventual role inthe death of this man, underplayed as it is,focuses our puzzlement about him: who is this guy,and why doesn't he have any feelings...

Author: By Alexandra Jacobs, | Title: Not Quite Love at First Sight | 9/30/1993 | See Source »

...settlement was a smooth alternative to a messy trail, one which kept old arguments in the background and allowed the school to get on with the study of law, professors...

Author: By Anna D. Wilde, | Title: After Dalton, Battles Remain | 9/25/1993 | See Source »

...heroine is Ellen Olenska, May's cousin, now separated from her European aristocrat husband and thus the subject of purring rumor from the town's smooth hypocrites. As the radiantly giddy May seems a child to Newland, so he feels like a boy in Ellen's presence. The two fall in furtive love. But it is not falling so much as tiptoeing in the dark. Once he kisses her slipper; later he unbuttons her glove and kisses her wrist, then her mouth, which opens more in anguish than in lust. Guilt is the barrier between their lips. And both could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Good Fellow in Old New York | 9/20/1993 | See Source »

...problems it must face every year. This year, the question of gender equity threatens to upset the smooth-running old-boy network that's run athletics for so long. Several coaches have been hired to turn around oncegreat programs and results are being expected soon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Five Questions Facing Harvard Athletics | 9/17/1993 | See Source »

Still, even with the strengthened returns, theroad ahead is not likely to be entirely smooth orwithout peril for the University's money. AsHarvard officials are quick to point out, thereare no guarantees that foreign stocks willcontinue to do well...

Author: By Stephen E. Frank, | Title: For Meyer and Friends, A Good Year at Last | 9/17/1993 | See Source »

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