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...great scheme of things, the issue of whether or not the Fly and other final clubs eventually decide to admit women is trivial. In truth, the clubs occupy a tiny space on the very periphery of life at Harvard, and only a very small number of self-important men belong to them anyway...

Author: By Stephen E. Frank, | Title: The Fly Must Be Squashed | 9/30/1994 | See Source »

Granted, in the great scheme of things, the Second Quiz Show Scandal is a trivial affair. But we would hope that Redford could at least, in some small way, practice what he preaches. As it stand, the film deserves two thumbs up. As it stands, the film deserves two thumps up. Redford, on the other hand, gets the finger...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Two Thumbs Down for Redford | 9/19/1994 | See Source »

...easy to make this stuff look foolish and trivial," says Tor Books' Nielsen Hayden. "After all, a lot of everyone's daily life is foolish and trivial. I mean, really, smileys? Housewives in Des Moines who log on as VIXEN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bards Of the Internet | 7/4/1994 | See Source »

...today's world, where Harvard's role in international affairs is taken for granted, such criticisms may seem trivial. But in recent interview, editors of The Old Mole Today say 1969 was a very different time...

Author: By Ethan M. Tucker, | Title: 'Mole' Reveals Harvard Secrets | 6/6/1994 | See Source »

...highway, however, when he moved permanently to Long Island in 1963, was mostly suds and mayonnaise. The long $ series of pink squidgy pictures -- landscapes, nudes splayed like frogs in memory of Dubuffet, and female clam diggers -- that issued from his studio over the next 15 years was lush and trivial. The drawing is submerged in weak, declamatory, wambling brushstrokes; the color -- mostly pink -- is bright and boring. Yet you could never write De Kooning off. He came back in the late '70s with some big, rapturously congested landscape-body images with a deeper tonal structure that, though they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: Seeing the Face in the Fire | 5/30/1994 | See Source »

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