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Strasser also has a redeeming weakness for illusion and the surreal. The back corridors at Computer Associates, with their white walls, black floors and deep side niches, are moody and de Chiricoesque. Both there and in his offices, conventional ceilings in the reception areas simply end at the passage into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Hip Styles for Blue Chips | 1/15/1990 | See Source »

While the Crimson were without the services of All-American breaststroker Mia Costello, Harvard's one loss on the day, in the 100 breaststroke, highlights the team's weakness in that stroke. While such a weakness did not make a difference for the NCAA 18th-ranked Crimson team Saturday, it...

Author: By Gary R. Shenk, | Title: Swim Teams Deny Dartmouth | 1/8/1990 | See Source »

To recognize that the Soviet threat has been greatly exaggerated is not to commit the sin of "moral equivalence"; Western self-criticism about the phobias of the cold war does not imply a neutral judgment about the Soviet system. Quite the contrary: it is precisely because that system is such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rethinking The Red Menace | 1/1/1990 | See Source »

It also is time to think seriously about eventually retiring the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, with honor, to be sure, but without too much nostalgia. Yes, NATO has helped keep the peace. But so has the existence of nuclear weapons, and so has the inherent weakness of the Soviet Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rethinking The Red Menace | 1/1/1990 | See Source »

What this all adds up to is a stiff, uninteresting performance, additionally hampered by technical problems. The action was slowed down enormously by laborious scene changes, which involved repositioning the black and white flats that composed the set. And the lighting was so poorly designed that actors not infrequently recited...

Author: By Kelly A. Matthews, | Title: Romantic Movement? | 12/15/1989 | See Source »

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