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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...main goal is to get the U.C. more in touch with the student body and to use the U.C. as a liaison between different student groups," he said. "We don't really have an overly political viewpoint," said Blake, who was co-chair of the CLC last year and who has been a delegation chair from Eliot House for two years...

Author: By Rachel P. Kovner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Race for Next Undergraduate Council President Begins | 11/23/1998 | See Source »

...Children's Defense Fund, because the talking-animal special effects weren't done. But that was, well, double-talk. In fact, the studio brass hadn't seen the finished film until last week. When they did, they weren't happy. Ron Meyer, president of Universal Studios Inc., got in touch with studio owner Edgar Bronfman Jr., who concurred that the picture was too scary for the children the studio needs to attract...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Is the Pig in Danger of Becoming a Turkey? | 11/23/1998 | See Source »

Like Giselle, Ryan's 13-year-old sister Danni has created guidelines for her own spending. Calling herself "a squirrel," Danni won't touch the $1,700 she has earned baby-sitting and pet-sitting until she's crazy about something...like the $140 Doc Martens she wanted last Christmas. They were cool, but Danni felt they cost too much. Lucky for her, her mother and grandmother split the cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Parents' Guide: Money Counts | 11/23/1998 | See Source »

Updike's prose, as usual, is like the posteriorof one of his protagonist's many women:"gray-clad...firm but a touch more ample than [is]locally fashionable..." Though costumed in theheavily scented, rarefied air of the uptownapartments of the pretentious and over-educated,the novel, in keeping with the spirit of its(anti)hero, is at heart an ever-so-slightlydoddering, luscious, highly sexualized andself-satirical backwards glance at a ratherunremarkable life of letters. His absolutelysucculent, if somewhat condescending descriptionsof leggy, perpetually nude women aside, Updikeexcels in dialogue, cocktail party dialogue, rifewith the sarcastic, incisive mental commentary ofBech. Some...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A REVIEW BY ADRIANE N. GIEBEL | 11/20/1998 | See Source »

...enjoy the live Brazilian music. A small band cranks out such quintessential Brazilian songs as "The Girl from Ipanema." Apparently this is the restaurant's stock song--when the band takes a break they pipe in a recorded version of "Girl" through the speakers. Nonetheless, it adds a pleasant touch to the dining experience...

Author: By Nissara Horayangura, | Title: Stick This on Your Skewer And Eat It | 11/19/1998 | See Source »

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