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...wouldn't call [Coopers and Lybrand] a neutral party," said Peter Wood '64, a history professor at Duke University, and one of this year's candidates...

Author: By Mark M. Colodny, | Title: Groups Says Overseers Election Rules Biased | 2/5/1987 | See Source »

...concrete scattered throughout your blue book will have you up for sainthood. Or at least Dean's List. Name at least the titles of every other book Hume wrote; don't just say Medieval cathedrals, name nine. Think up a few specific examples of "contemporary decadence," like Natalie Wood. If you can't come up with titles, try a few sharp metaphors of your own; they at least have the solid clinks of pseudofacts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Grader's Reply | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

...Lawrence goalie Scott Year-wood is sixth in the ECAC with a 2.84 g.a.a...

Author: By Adam J. Epstein, | Title: Streaking Icemen Hit the Road | 1/9/1987 | See Source »

...Frances, Stefanie Powers hits one note loud and often: she speaks nearly all her lines in a sort of loony, distracted haze. Though her performance lacks shadings, she creates a memorable monster. Doug McKeon and Corey Parker are at once scary and pathetic as her sons. E.G. Marshall, John Wood and Frances Sternhagen do nice turns in support...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Murder,They Both Wrote AT MOTHER'S REQUEST | 1/5/1987 | See Source »

...their blond manes and mesomorphic torsos beckon from shelves in nearly every toy store in the nation. In other times the wandering children have been differently named and more modestly dressed. Observes Roger Sale, a professor of English at the University of Washington: "A girl is in a wood. Give her a brother, and one has Hansel and Gretel . . . send the girl to dwarfs, and one has Snow White. Make the girl a boy, and one might have Jack, either the one who climbs beanstalks or the one who kills giants." Make the wood the reaches of space, and they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: In All Seasons, Toys Are Us | 12/22/1986 | See Source »

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