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...series, the black-jacketed, red-white-and-blue-striped, gold-embossed collection from the people who bring you Penguin Classics. You might have read Absalom, Absalom out of one. Library of America specializes in collections of novels widely available in paperback which--when tastefully reset and bound in cloth--somehow warrant a $35 price...

Author: By Matthew R. Daniels, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: New Hard-Bound 'Collected' Wallace Stevens Fits Nicely on Shelf | 11/21/1997 | See Source »

...even the broadest historical facts regarding the fate of the Romanov dynasty and Anastasia. The only part of the film that even attempts to ground itself in history is in a short opening prologue, occurring during an unmentioned First World War, one year after the Russian Revolution in 1916. Somehow, Anastasia, born in 1901, is only eight years old in 1916. With the help of a servant boy, Dmitri, Anastasia manages to escape from Rasputin and his revolutionaries, but falls off a train, hitting her head...

Author: By Adam J. Levitin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Rape of Clio: Reconciling Art and History | 11/21/1997 | See Source »

...first full-time devotee of MTV. The babysitter encapsulated everything every pre-adolescent girl aspired to be. She studied big-kid subjects like foreign languages and textbook math. She was allowed to wear make-up--glossy pink lip gloss, mascara and blue eyeshadow that reached her eyebrows. Somehow her mother allowed her to have stretch jeans and stilletto heels worn with scrunch socks. She even had a boyfriend who'd pick her up when she was done making sure that you'd done none of your 'homework,' ingested "Facts of Life," the "Love Boat--Fantasy Island" double hour, "Family Ties...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: a tribute to the '80s Babysitter... | 11/20/1997 | See Source »

...frustration gets me down, and I feel somehow implicated by his criticism. I realize that I shouldn't have let my friends drag me (or my eight bucks) to the utterly dismal "Contact" this summer; I shouldn't have complained "I don't want to read a movie tonight" that time a friend was bent on renting a subtitled, Japanese-language video...

Author: By Dan S. Aibel, | Title: The Last Picture Show | 11/19/1997 | See Source »

...first thing to understand is how these cases arise. Usually, you are composing a message and somehow the process is interrupted. Perhaps you accidentally closed the telnet window, or you could have been disconnected by a network outage. Either way, you want your letter back...

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurston, | Title: TechTalk | 11/18/1997 | See Source »

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