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Rutger Fury, the former national political correspondent for The National Enquirer and a one-time Harvard square punk, is a friend of Jeffrey J. Wise...

Author: By Rutger Fury, | Title: Taking the Town | 4/18/1987 | See Source »

...film Rashomon, their accounts do not quite measure up with each other. Playwright Brian Friel, who is undergoing an inexplicable vogue among the Harvard thespian set, handles the theme of religion as a divine con game with much less sophistication than Flannery O'Conner did in her novel Wise Blood...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Harvard Theater | 4/15/1987 | See Source »

...HIGH School, I was picked absolutely last when it came time to choose sides for anything from softball to field hockey. Wise captains hid me in the backfield where I couldn't do very much damage. So, I came to college without a thought of pursuing a sport. Journalism became my principal extracurricular pursuit, and the walk from Dunster to 14 Plympton Street constituted my only real form of exercise...

Author: By Cristina V. Coletta, | Title: All for One and One for All | 4/13/1987 | See Source »

...order to reach out to other campuses across the United States, Chung hires campus coordinators "on-a-project basis." Rather than using passive media, such as blanket campus newspaper advertising, JCA targets specific groups on specific campuses and has the campus coordinators determine what would be a wise strategy for that school. He says: "We try to evaluate what our clients' advantages are and which groups on campus would be the most likely targets and how to target those groups...

Author: By Eric Berman, | Title: On the Make With Ski Trips, Watches and Elvis | 4/13/1987 | See Source »

...naturally and logically, everything his master cannot hope to be. He moves, for example, not with the herky-jerky nervousness of his creator or a too cute movie robot. Instead, Malkovich invests him with a preternatural smoothness. His character is equally subtle. It may be based on the wise-child conventions on which the typical sci-fi robot is modeled. But Malkovich informs and energizes his performance with the deadpan bravery, the relentless will, the invincible ignorance and the infinite need to give and receive love that all parents observe as their offspring pass through the infamously terrible twos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Making Mr. Right | 4/13/1987 | See Source »

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