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...slide a drop of sweat (telling, isn't it?) and smells only of flowers, she begrudges her fellow athletes a real workout. She wishes fervently that all sweaters wipe every drop of their salt from the machines lest she contract it. If the large windows do not offer superb ventilation, they are at least satisfactory. If only she has the strength to open them! She plans to make the MAC off-limits to anyone capable of lifting enough weight to justify grunting, with the music police on high alert...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Schachter Needs To Exercise | 10/25/1995 | See Source »

...notion of placing such a figure at the center of a murder story in the Paris of 1892 must have seemed both absurd and superb when writer Eric Zencey hatched it, and in his novel Panama (Farrar Straus Giroux; 375 pages; $24), that's exactly the way it turns out. Zencey, a professor of history at Goddard College in Vermont, presents an Adams pastiche that might have been recognizable to the original: a small, acute, conflicted man who emits pedantry when made nervous. He cannot praise except in negatives: on the rococo facade of the Paris Opera House "the winged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: HENRY ADAMS, RE-EDUCATED | 10/9/1995 | See Source »

...Proposal easily avoids such problems, churning along with a clipped and measured cadence thanks to superb acting from the suitor Lomov (Scott Richards) and the neighbor Natalya (Nada Despotovich), whom he wishes to wed. The anxious and particular Lomov succeeds unexpectedly with Natalya's father in asking for her hand, but soon everything goes terribly wrong when Lomov falls into a pointless territorial dispute with Natalya before he can propose. As he refuses to abandon principle for pragmatism, the argument degenerates...

Author: By Thomas Madsen, | Title: Three's (Almost) A Charm for the Nora | 9/28/1995 | See Source »

Harvard nearly evened the game minutes later when Bowes headed a crossing pass towards the goal. However, Monmouth goalie Lori Houlihan was in superb position and made a great save to preserve the Hawk lead...

Author: By Ethan G. Drogin, | Title: Women's Soccer Falls to Monmouth | 9/25/1995 | See Source »

Although that is by no means the opinion of most Harvard professors--many of whom are superb--the comment and the survey give evidence for a problem in Harvard's attitude toward teaching. As it stands, the teaching is generally adequate, but it could be so much better...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: Dance: 10. Looks: 3. | 9/22/1995 | See Source »

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