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Especially when it helps ice a win against the best college team around, and it ends a three-year dry spell for his varsity scoring. Judging by his smile after the game, beating Providence last night made Rob Wheeler forget all about tennis. Even forget about sipping champagne at courtside...

Author: By Marco L. Quazzo, | Title: From Forehands to Forechecking | 2/10/1983 | See Source »

...overpowering femininity enhance the sexual ambiguities surrounding her character--the only one of the characters to have changed during the past 20 years. Although she doesn't come into the movie until the plot has been underway for quite some time, Black's Joann breaks the trance-like spell that pervades the reunion; she forces cruel reality to enter into the plot as her character causes the later revelations of Cissy and Mona to occur. The information she reveals undermines everyone's position and tests the fervor of their characters...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: Post-Mortem Woe | 1/21/1983 | See Source »

According to a mid-December draft the most recent of several that have emerged since last spring the rules spell out proposed policy in four major areas conduct of research, discussing criteria for accepting grants motivation for research, including conflict of interest rules for Faculty members, quality of research covering the review and evaluation of projects and the commercial applications of research defining the touchy issues involved with patenting and licensing "any invention deriving from university-based research...

Author: By Gilbert Fuchsberg, | Title: New Prescription Debated For Biotechnology Policy | 1/7/1983 | See Source »

...routine work mean that human thinking will shift to a higher level? Will IQs rise? Will there be more intellectuals? The computer may make a lot of learning as unnecessary as memorizing the multiplication tables. But if a dictionary stored in the computer's memory can easily correct any spelling mistakes, what is the point of learning to spell? And if the mind is freed from intellectual routine, will it race off in pursuit of important ideas or lazily spend its time on more video games...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Computer Moves In | 1/3/1983 | See Source »

...York. Her catastrophic past has given her mercurial moods: giddy with ecstasy at the antics of her lover Nathan (Kevin Kline) and her puppy pursuer Stingo (Peter MacNicol), then darkly ruminative as memory provides her with waking nightmares. Even as sketched by Styron in overwrought prose, Sophie wove a spell over millions of readers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bewitching and Bewildering | 12/13/1982 | See Source »

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