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...earned Harvard a date with Villanova the following morning, the same team the Crimson beat narrowly, 11-10, at the Princeton Invitational in February. Although the Crimson led for most of the game, it was unable to tame the Wildcats and suffered a two-point loss...
Although Lloyd's quest can be fun reading, once again, reality has proved the master of fiction. Last week's humongous real-life deals might raise the unemployment rate in three or four cities while making the honchos filthy rich. That makes even Lloyd seem just a little too tame...
...TAME TEENS Adolescents who get condoms at school aren't any more sexually active than those who don't. And when prepared teens do have sex, they're more likely to use the protection...
After these relatively tame outposts of noir film and literature, things start to get a little bit shady. The music industry seems to have appropriated the noir concept quite vigorously. Carly Simon's album "Film Noir," a tribute to music from the 1940's, boasts an elaborate official homepage, complete with commentary from Billboard magazine. The less-mainstream Oregon group Duoglide offers up a "listening guide" for their "Song Noir" album, which they claim sounds like "cheap hotels, smoke, neon, martinis, and danger"; how they can produce this effect with two people and a banjo is a question...
...Difficult Women (Doubleday; 434 pages; $23.95) is, more or less, a meandering lamentation on the fate of irrepressible women, those too angry, too tormented, too selfish--those who, say, would prefer to see big pictures of themselves on book jackets when stock art would do. Unless such women tame themselves, Wurtzel bemoans, they wind up dying young. Or, one supposes, at the very least unmarriageable to nice fund managers...